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- From: softbase@mercury.interpath.com (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems)
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- Subject: Re: Borland C++ 5.0 Development Suite (NEW)
- Date: 6 Apr 1996 21:46:34 GMT
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- Steve Bernstein (YDUU42A@prodigy.com) wrote:
- : I would like to know if anyone else has this new program yet. Perhaps
- : there are some pitfalls we can discuss or advantages we can learn from.
-
- I have BC++ 5.0. I haven't warmed to it yet. They got rid of Resource
- Workshop, which is bad. They changed all the menus and everything,
- which is bad. They have so many menus now my menu bar wraps onto
- another line, which takes away space from the source I'm editing.
- Overall, you can't just use it if you're used to 4.5. I like 4.5's
- minimal interface better than this windows-everywhere busy
- interface.
-
- It's much, much slower -- the IDE is sluggish even in copious memory.
- I attribute that to the new WhateverScript language, Yet Another C++
- Derivative I don't have time to learn. It would be nice to have a vi
- emulation, but it would require the equivalent of a doctoral research
- project to learn the scripting language enough to write it. I was
- using BC++ 5 to work on something that needed a specific Win95 function
- which is not available in 4.5, and finally generated a makefile and
- went back to vi and the command line for compiling. It's slow.
-
- It seems to compile faster, though, but still deposits multi-megabyte
- precompiled headers. Sheesh, you think precompiling the standard
- headers ONCE on the system would be sufficient. As long as you're
- writing ANSI C, you're okay, but the smallest tiniest little Windows
- function pulls in the WHOLE Windows header comglomeration.
-
- It's one more nail in straight C's coffin, a bloated C++ development
- platform, although I'm eagerly awaiting MIX's 32-bit compiler. Borland
- could learn something.
-
- Zero documentation: they included ***4.5*** books in with the slim
- package I got, and only ***ONE*** 5.0 book! Zilch on STL, Java, or any
- of the other new stuff I got it for.
-
- Scott
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