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- From: rosko@zeta.org.au (Ross McKay)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Difference between Vis C++ versions 1.52 and 4.0 ??
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 02:14:33 GMT
- Organization: Soft Technologies
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- pa_bdg@hendrix.coe.neu.edu (Ullr) wrote:
-
- >I think it has to do with 32 vs. 16 bit and being able to use on
- >Windows 3.11 and/or Win95. Can anyone clear this up for me? I want to
- >buy, but the difference is not obvious. Thanks.
-
- There is the difference you stated: 1.5x does Windows 3.1, whereas 2.x
- and 4.0 do Win32 (Windows NT and Windows 95).
-
- In addition, Micro$oft are no longer adding features to the 1.5x
- Visual C++ compiler, as they are trying to push everyone off Windows
- 3.1 to Win32. As such, any of the newer features to the language (e.g.
- templates, namespaces, basically anything new the ANSI committee come
- up with) will never be added to the 1.5x versions. If you want to use
- these features, you must give up 1.5x and either not write software
- that can run on Windows 3.1 or buy a non-Micro$oft compiler.
-
- Cheers,
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- Soft Technologies | email: mailto:rosko@zeta.org.au
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