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- From: alane@wozzle.linet.org (J. Alan Eldridge)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Wrong directions at Borland?
- Message-ID: <DFZsVB2w165w@wozzle.linet.org>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 02:58:00 GMT
- References: <KANZE.92Dec8200621@slsvhat.us-es.sel.de>
- Organization: Disorganization
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- kanze@us-es.sel.de (James Kanze) writes:
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- > In article <1992Dec4.211512.4167@kronos.arc.nasa.gov>
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- > |> >Zortech's got one, but I don't think that there up there with Borland
- > |> >or Microsoft in sales.
- >
- > |> Zortech has other problems.
- >
- > Technical or others? :-)
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- 1. Walter's a bright guy (pun intended). His compilers are very good,
- but often a little quirky, and often released without sufficient testing.
- He does generate absolutely screaming code, though.
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- 2. Symantec's policy has been not to provide interim patch releases. This
- will probably change with their 3.1 release.
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- 3. The language group is tremendously understaffed, especially in QA and
- support. This has caused support to suffer. Hopefully this will also change.
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- These are my own opinions resulting from conversations with Symantec
- personnel.
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- The product is technically very good... but I wouldn't recommend it to
- a novice programmer, nor even someone just a novice at 32-bit DOS. This
- is a product for professional developers.
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- alane@wozzle.linet.org (J. Alan Eldridge)
- Fido: The University of Walamaloo 1:272/38.473
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