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- From: pitre@n5160d.nrl.navy.mil (Richard Pitre)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Microsoft Visual C++ vs. Borland C++
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 13:25:23 GMT
- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- Message-ID: <4irlc3$qpj@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- References: <4iria4$i76@granite.sentex.net>
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- In article <4iria4$i76@granite.sentex.net> campdd@sentex.net (David Campbell)
- writes:
- > >If you are doing 16-bit development I would look at the new
- > >Borland compiler. Microsoft will not be supporting 16-bit
- > >compilation.
- >
- > Your review was really great! However, included with Visual C++ 4.0
- > is Visual C++ 1.52 for designing 16-bit compilation so the option is
- > there. As a note, I had used the Turbo C++ 3.0 compiler a while ago
- > to learn programming and it was great, but as far as a learning
- > system, the debugging tools, and online documentation make Visual C++
- > the better option in my opinion for anyone learning the language.
- > Borland very much puts the owness of learning the language on the
- > individual whereas Microsoft supports the learning user. There is no
- > question that Borland's new compiler will be more feature packed
- > however if you are a learning user, this really doesn't matter.
- >
- > David
- >
-
- It doesn't matter only if you are in learning mode forever.
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