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- From: javaprog@best.com (John Lockwood)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: which c/c++ compiler for student?
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 03:41:54 GMT
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- pete@borland.com (Pete Becker) wrote:
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- >>Hi, I'd recommend Visual C++ 4.0 if you can afford it, since most
- >>professional work in the Intel world is done with it.
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- >Nonsense.
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- No, it's not nonsense at all. I was in the job market in Silicon
- Valley as recently as fourteen months ago, and at that time there were
- literally dozens of Visual C++ want ads for every one Borland C++ ad.
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- To be sure, there are "all those jobs that aren't advertised in the
- newspapers", but unless you have some evidence that all these
- conveniently hidden jobs are more prone to be done using Borland C++
- than Visual C++ -- by a margin wide enough to make up for all the ads
- that we DO have as evidence -- I don't think your point is made.
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- Tell you what, for any Sunday San Jose Mercury News published between
- now and the end of this year, if Visual C++ ads don't beat Borland C++
- ads by at least two to one, I'll buy you lunch. Not just a Zanottos
- sandwich, either. A nice place.
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- Regards,
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- John Lockwood
- john@wwg.com
- javaprog@best.com
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