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- From: Teresa Reiko <tjr19@mail.nwlink.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Borland should be ashamed. My experience with BC5.0.
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 12:50:53 GMT
- Organization: Northwest Link
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- bsilvern@li.net (Bob Silvern) wrote:
- >With the release of BC5.0, Borland has made it clear that they value
- >time-to-market far more than customer satisfaction. Within 5 minutes of use I
- >found a considerable number of serious bugs, even with Patch 1 installed.
- >There is no way that Borland could have been ignorant of these problems. I
- >have no doubt that they made the conscious decision to ship this product
- >prematurely in order not to lose market share to Microsoft and Symantec.
- >
- > <etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc . . .>
- > <etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc . . .>
- > <etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc . . .>
- > <etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc . . .>
- > <etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc . . .>
- >
-
- And you suppose that Microsoft Visual C++ does not have bugs? In my
- opinion, it is worse than Borland C++. And what about Windows 95?
-
- Maybe they shipped it permaturely, but so does everyone else. At least
- Borland C compiles the *code* correctly. A few days ago, there was a
- thread about how Watcom C completely optimized away a simple loop: (!!)
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- int a[32];
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- ..
-
- for(i = 0; i < 16; i++)
- a[i] = a[i + i];
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- And, there is NO NEED to post Five Hundred and Thirty Three Lines of
- C-unrelated junk... and who cares if someone at Borland misspelled
- "technical support"!
-
- ----- for every vision there is an equal and opposite revision ... -----
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- Teresa Reiko Chief Programmer, Tenbyte Software tjr19@nwlink.com
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