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- From: wemccaug@prairienet.org (Wendy E. McCaughrin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Borland should be ashamed. My experience with BC5.0.
- Date: 21 Apr 1996 03:12:24 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Message-ID: <4lc92o$e3q@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
- References: <danpop.830053290@news.cern.ch> <4l6d1b$219@linet06.li.net> <4l827d$1la@texas.nwlink.com> <4lbqv4$r3k@linet06.li.net>
- Reply-To: wemccaug@prairienet.org (Wendy E. McCaughrin)
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- In a previous article, danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) says:
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- >In <4lbqv4$r3k@linet06.li.net> bsilvern@li.net (Bob Silvern) writes:
- >
- >>Teresa Reiko <tjr19@mail.nwlink.com> wrote:
- >>
- >>><snip>
- >>> And, there is NO NEED to post Five Hundred and Thirty Three Lines of
- >>>C-unrelated junk...
- >>
- >>I spent a few hours of my time compiling all this information because I thought
- >>it was of interest to my fellow C/C++ programmers.
- >
- >Nope. It was of interest only to the subset of C/C++ programmers who
- >happen to use a platform supported by Borland products and who might
- >be considering buying the new version.
- >
- >However, neither comp.lang.c nor comp.lang.c++ are dedicated to discussions
- >about Borland products (they're for the discussions about the respective
- >languages), so your post was utterly inappropriate. It should have been
- >directed to comp.os.msdos.programmer (and possibly other groups focused
- >on DOS/Windows programming) _only_.
- >
- >Just consider what would happen if everybody would start posting about
- >his good/bad experiences with the latest version of his favourite compiler
- >on his favourite platform.
- >
- >Dan
- >--
- >Dan Pop
- >CERN, CN Division
- >Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch
- >Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
- >
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- Just one question: is this a moderated newsgroup?
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