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- From: jns127@psu.edu (Jason Sandlin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: BORLAND C++
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 02:21:42 GMT
- Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing
- Message-ID: <3176f77d.56277814@news.psu.edu>
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- Grady Dill <gndill@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
-
- >Jack and/or Olya wrote:
- >>
- >> I'm about to buy Borland C++ 5.0 Developement Suite. I'm trying to
- >> find out if my computer will be O.K. for the memory load and what
- >> actually comes in the box. The flyers are all nice and pretty, but
- >> specific books included ?, database access tools ?, do they work with
- >> MS-Access?. I've called the company, but they just keep offering to
- >> send me faxes with nothing but sales information. I'm running a P133
- >> with 16meg and 1.5gig hard drive. I've been in the programming
- >> industry for 15 years (FORTRAN, COBOL, etc...) so learning a new
- >> language like C++ is not my problem.
- >>
- >> I'd like some first hand information from someone with the same kind
- >> of setup and has implemented the 5.0 Developement Suite.
-
-
- i also have a P133 w/ 16 megs and a >2gig HD and have the dev suite.
- The speed for me is not a problem at all, it seems fairly quick,
- slower than 4.52 of coure but the add features and nice looks are the
- trade off. The IDE tho as everyone is saying is very buggy, but for
- simple workings its fine enough until they get a stable version going.
- The books in the box are limited, two main books - one about the IDE
- (you could figure this stuff out), and another about C++ in general
- written at a high level format so as only an experanced C++ programmer
- would understand it (get a book by a real author on C++ if you want to
- learn it), but BC++ IDE is the best you can get although right now it
- is very unstable which means for some unusable.
-