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- From: jars@coho.halcyon.com (Juan Rodriguez)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Recommendations for compiler for HS students
- Date: 10 Apr 1996 20:55:27 GMT
- Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services
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- In article <316b22ef.1452311@10.0.2.1>, Adam Gensler <guzz@netcom.com> wrote:
- > Otherwise the students are looking to pay at least $100 for a
- >comertial compiler (if they get a student discount).
-
- Not so; the regular for Visual C++ v. 4.0, standard edition, is about $100;
- with the usual academic discount, a student can buy it for $50. And it is a
- very nice development environment, has a 32 bit compiler, includes the STL,
- and it has very good support.
-
- > I was going to get Borland C++ v5.0 with a student discount today, but
- >the price was jacked up to $129 from $99 since v4.5. Being a computer science
- >student, and needing a compiler since I sold my v4.5, I'm moving over to
- >Watcom C/C++ v10.6 which is only $99.
-
- See above.
-
-
-
- Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Sero; jars@halcyon.com
- Lake Forest Park, Washington 98155 - 2940, U. S. A.
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