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- From: Richard Bowen <bowen.richard.rw@bhp.com.au>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Software De-Evolution
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:02:44 +1100
- Organization: BHP IT
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- John Tal wrote:
- >
- > Just installed Borland C++ 5.0 yesterday (after having to clear 200 meg
- > from my hard drive). I just installed the (first) patch this morning.
- > After having read some of the problems people are having with BC5, and
- > having experienced similar problems with PowerBuilder and Visual Basic,
- > I'm sorry to say I'm reaching the conclusion that development tools are
- > getting worse, not better. (We just de-installed BC 5 and went back to
- > BC 4.52, some workstations could not compile, some threw protection
- > violations at link-time.)
-
- Sounds exactly like when 4.0 came out. We installed it then went right back
- to 3.1. I think that overall windows software reliability is improving
- every year. Developing on NT and ( VC 2.2 (yeah ok 4.0 isn't that smooth
- either)) is a dream compared to the good old days of windows 3.0.
-
- Richard
-