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- From: leying@alpha (Leying Zhao)
- Subject: Re: Protogen Code Generator
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 22:06:15 GMT
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- In article <2386@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> twpunix@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Tim Parsons) writes:
- >
- > Having recently registered my Borland C++/AF 3.0, I got a call from a
- >Borland rep offering Protogen for $49.95 (regularly $495, she said).
- >Does anyone know if it's worth getting, what it's particularly suited for?
- >It'd have a money-back trial period, but I'd like to know if it's something
- >to seriously look into, before I make even such a modest leap. I've scanned
- >back issues of PC Week, etc., but info is pretty sketchy. Thanks.
- >
- >Tim Parsons (twpunix@bsu-cs.bsu.edu)
-
- I have PROTOGEN 2.0.
-
- The information on their ad is missleading.
- You have to read its ad very carefully. It reads(line 14 of the white half
- page ad):
- ... preserves all of the code you add to this framework ...
- ^^^
- But, I can not simply ADD code. The source code generated by it deos
- not give you any way to transfer data in/out dialog. You have to
- modify the source code. Your modification will be gone when you back
- to use it. I wrote a small C program to preserve my changes. But I
- have to add more and more features to my C tool to do what I want. So
- I gave up. I did not order 2.1 version when I ordered BC++ 3.1.
-
- If you want use it as a prototype generator, it works.
-
- I have to say: the name is not missleading: PROTOtype GENerator, not CODEGEN.
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