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  1. Path: chrism.demon.co.uk!chris
  2. From: Chris Marriott <chris@chrism.demon.co.uk>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
  4. Subject: Re: fastest code
  5. Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 17:55:01 +0100
  6. Organization: SkyMap Software
  7. Distribution: world
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  17. In article <316A3076.1303@oecd.org>, david landgren
  18. <david.landgren@oecd.org> writes
  19. >I dunno. I was looking at my copy of VC2.0, and wondering whether I should
  20. >upgrade to VC4.0. I looked at the adverts. They talked about the marvellous
  21. >new features of MFC4.0. They talked about groovy enhancements to the
  22. >development environment. They talked about all sorts of stuff, but nothing
  23. >that I was looking for. To whit: do they have RTTI? Namespaces? How much
  24. >STL can their templates handle? Can they inline virtual functions? Do they
  25. >grok the C++ casting syntax? Are exceptions still coded as macros? Didn't
  26. >find any answers to those questions, so I'm not gonna upgrade.
  27. >
  28.  
  29. You would have found the answers to these questions if you'd looked at
  30. the technical information on Microsoft's web server.
  31.  
  32.         RTTI: Yes
  33.         Namespaces: Yes
  34.         STL: It's supplied with HP's STL totally unaltered
  35.         Inline virtual functions: don't know
  36.  
  37. Chris
  38.  
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  40.  Chris Marriott, Warrington, UK      | Author of SkyMap v3 award-winning 
  41.  chris@chrism.demon.co.uk            | shareware Win31/Win95 planetarium.
  42.             For full info, see http://www.execpc.com/~skymap  
  43.       Author member of Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP) 
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