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- From: grantp@usa.pipeline.com(Pete Grant)
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- Subject: Re: Microsoft Visual C++ vs. Borland C++
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 16:30:51 GMT
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- On Mar 21, 1996 15:21:03 in article <Re: Microsoft Visual C++ vs. Borland
- C++>, 'campdd@sentex.net (David Campbell)' wrote:
-
-
- >>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.
-
- Except that MSVC++1.52 does not implement the recent (like last 5 years)
- changes to the language. It does not support templates, exceptions,
- c++ casts, namespaces, etc., etc., etc.... Also, MFC is not very
- object-oriented compared to OWL. IMO it's not a good C++ learning tool.
-
- >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.
-
- I guess you mean onus. I think that learning the langugage *is*
- the reponsibility of the individual. Microsoft may make the
- development of Windows applications easier, but for learning
- the language, this "easiness" can actually be detrimental. It's
- easy for me to picture someone with a year or more development
- experience with MSVC++ but having only a shallow knowledge of
- the C++ language itself.
-
- --
- Pete Grant
- Kalevi, Inc.
- Software Engineering & development
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