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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Borland should be ashamed. My experience with BC5.0.
- Date: 20 Apr 1996 19:52:52 -0500
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
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- In article <4lb6s4$hc5@nntp.snfc21.pbi.net>, <mich@pbinet.com> wrote:
- >In <4l8j3cINNfbr@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>, c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) writes:
- >>You wouldn't be suffering from such B.S. if you used your favorite editor.
-
- >So you sanction Borland foisting a buggy product on the buying public?
-
- (Speaking for myself, not Kaz.)
-
- No, but I don't care; let the market forces handle it, but don't post it
- in groups that aren't specific to the environment this matters in. I am
- unlikely to ever use Borland's, Microsoft's, or Watcom's compiler for those
- machines; their respective weaknesses are of no relevance or interest.
-
- I read comp.lang.c for information about the C language. If anyone wants
- to discuss whether or not the compiler is mishandling C, there's some
- topicality. The IDE has nothing to do with this group, and should not
- be taking up space or time here.
-
- >>Do you actually have an bugs to report about the *compiler*?
-
- >Does it sound plausible that if one end of a product has problems then the
- >other end might as well?
-
- Yes, it also sounds plausible that one might be much buggier or less buggy
- than the other. I suppose I should start posting complaints about bugs in
- bash; after all, if the GNU project's shell has bugs, surely it's possible
- that their compiler does, too?
-
- >>Cry me a river...
-
- >What are you, a Borland employee?
-
- I doubt he is, I know I'm not, and I agree completely. If you don't like
- it, get something else. But the product has nothing to do with the C
- language, or with the C++ language, any more than the version of make I
- use to maintain my programs has to do with the C language.
-
- If there are bugs in Borland's compiler, I wouldn't necessarily mind
- hearing about them; I am interested by almost any compiler bug, because
- I may find it useful to code around it. Certainly, 95% of the bugs
- I've seen reported in any compiler have turned out to be stupid user
- errors - but that's topical for this group. :)
-
- -s
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