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- From: pete@borland.com (Pete Becker)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: which c/c++ compiler for student?
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 16:38:19 GMT
- Organization: Borland International
- Message-ID: <4ju9hr$52c@druid.borland.com>
- References: <4jk3sd$kjh@uruguay.it.earthlink.net> <4jl75c$kfg@nntp1.best.com> <4jrj5f$47g@druid.borland.com> <4jss2i$blc@nntp1.best.com>
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- In article <4jss2i$blc@nntp1.best.com>, javaprog@best.com says...
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- >pete@borland.com (Pete Becker) wrote:
- >
- >
- >>>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.
- >
- >>Nonsense.
- >
- >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.
-
- Yup. All those companies that use Visual C++ can't get anyone to work
- for them, so they keep on advertising.
- Seriously, data like this is hardly conclusive, nor is it particularly
- meaningful. If the claim had been "I'd recommend Visual C++ 4.0 since most of
- the ads I see are looking for experience with it" that would be a different
- matter.
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