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- From: Martin Moore <moore@tdl.com>
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- Subject: Re: Borland should be ashamed. My experience with BC5.0.
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 10:36:26 -0800
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- Bob Silvern wrote:
- >
- > Borland users will remember BC4.0 as another fiasco. Although many of the
- > problems were fixed with later patches, the frustration endured by their
- > customers is not easily forgotten. The short short-sightedness of Borland's
- > management will ultimately catch up with them. I now regret giving them a
- > second chance by purchasing BC5.0.
-
- I found it interesting that this was the first release of BC++
- where a Borland sales person called me three times over the
- course of a couple of months to ask me yet again if I was
- interested in upgrading. Finally, I was "sold" by the claims of
- the salesman that this was their best release ever, that it was
- a vast improvement over MSVC & Symantec, and that I could return
- it within 180 days. I also looked forward to having PVCS and
- Codeguard included in the package. But, without a working BC5, I
- cannot use either.
-
- I didn't have the patience to find more than one show stopper
- that kept me stumped for a week or so. My one problem was that
- the 16 bit compiler wouldn't compile (in fact would die) if I
- tried to compile
- #include <vector.h>
- using namespace std;
- vector<int> x;
-
- Finally, I got an answer from Borland that BC5 does not support
- STL in 16 bit mode. I find that odd. Since I deinstalled the
- package, I can't verify if that is mentioned in the docs or not,
- but a simple error message would do, rather than killing the
- compiler (which it does).
-
- I am hoping that Borland will have some fixes out within the
- next 160 days or so, and that they improve the product
- considerably, but in the meantime, I will continue using 4.52
- for my old applications and Symantec 7.21 for the new ones.
-
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