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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: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 02:46:59 GMT
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- Rich Paul <rpaul@trcinc.com> wrote:
-
- >John Lockwood 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.
- >>
-
- >Just how many jobs do you NEED? I am a Borland man, though I've had the misfortune to use VC and the Frustration classes.
-
- Ah, name calling, that's always worthwhile.
-
- > I have no problem keeping myself working. Now prehaps if I did visual, I'd have 12 jobs at a time, but what would I do with
- >them?
-
- Well, *I* don't need any more jobs than the outstanding one I already
- have. I was writing to a beginner, to whom I made the claim that
- although Turbo C++ is the outstanding beginner's compiler, if he was
- going to buy a professional level (i.e., expensive) compiler, he
- should buy Visual C++ because most work in the Intel world is done
- with it.
-
- If you'll review the thread, you'll find that I only started talking
- about want ads because of Pete Becker's unfounded claim that my
- assertion was nonsense.
-
- Whereupon, dealing with empirical evidence and offering him a 2 to 1
- point spread, I offered to buy Pete lunch. Now what, do YOU want
- lunch, too? Gee, you Borland guys sure are hungry.
-
- Q.E.D. ;-)
- Regards,
-
-
-
- John Lockwood
- john@wwg.com
- javaprog@best.com
- http://www.best.com/~javaprog
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