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- From: stevesi@microsoft.com (Steven Sinofsky)
- Subject: Re: borland c++ and microsoft c/c++
- Message-ID: <1992Aug11.030737.24130@microsoft.com>
- Date: 11 Aug 92 03:07:37 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Aug6.062043.28002@cs.UAlberta.CA> <1992Aug6.230926.12692@moe.einstein.com> <1992Aug8.210847.13563@cs.UAlberta.CA>
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- Can you elaborate on what "serious bugs" exist in the Microsoft class
- libraries? We have had only one minor bug report and posted a patch
- on CompuServe (and I have reposted it here) having to do with changing the
- background color of a dialog (pretty minor). Other than that, we have had
- no bug reports on CompuServe or USENET.
-
- Always glad to help, if you provide specifics,
- Steven
-
-
- In article <1992Aug8.210847.13563@cs.UAlberta.CA> ken@cs.UAlberta.CA (Huisman Kenneth M) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug6.230926.12692@moe.einstein.com>, jasper@iris.einstein.com (John Scott Peter XXXIII) writes:
- >> In article <1992Aug6.062043.28002@cs.UAlberta.CA>, ken@cs.UAlberta.CA (Huisman Kenneth M) writes:
- >> >
- >> > We are currently trying to decide between
- >> > borland c++ and microsoft c/c++ for windows development.
- >> >
- >> > What are the relative strengths / weaknesses of these
- >> > two products?
- >>
- >> Please, post any opinions to the net. I, and I'm sure a lot of other people,
- >> would be interested in hearing opinions on the differences between BC and MSC.
- >> Just about all I know about these 2 products is the features each has: the
- >> biggest feature difference is that BC 3.1 has templates, and MSC 7.0 does not.
- >> Otherwise, the list of development utilities seems comparable: both have
- >> integrated environments. BC's is Windows-based; MSC's can be run from Windows,
- >> but seems to be character-video only. Both have Windows development class
- >> libraries, but I've heard that MSC's is not as "thick" a layer as BC's. Both
- >> have source/class browsers, and execution profilers, as well as the standard
- >> debuggers, assemblers, etc. Both have register parameter-passing, but only
- >> MSC has a p-code generating option.
- >>
- >> However, not having really used either product, I can't say how WELL each one
- >> does what it does. That's what I'd like other yoosers' opinions on.
- >
- >I got two replies via email to my origional question. ( thanks to the two people
- >who replied). One was a Borland user, and was generally happy with
- >Borland's product. The other was a Microsoft user who said he would not
- >reccomment the microsoft compiler because of serious bugs in microsoft's
- >class libraries.
- >
- >Ken
- >
- >(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((*))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
- >(( Ken Huisman, Bsc. ))
- >(( Programmer, City of Edmonton ))
- >(( ---------------------------------------------------------------- ))
- >(( email: ken@cs.ualberta.ca ))
- >(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((*))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
- >
-
-
- --
- Steven Sinofsky
- stevesi@microsoft.com
- Disclaimer: I don't speak for Microsoft, BillG does that.
-