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- From: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Should I buy BC++ 3.1??
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.181225.5928@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 18:12:25 GMT
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- Pete Grant writes:
- >
- >Pardon if my bias shows -- but I've been a long time user of Borland products
- >and have dabbled with several other PC IDE products to include IBM OS/2
- >Workframe 2, MS PWB, etc. None of them can hold a candle to Borland!!!!
- >(IBM actually comes close :-)).
-
- It would be nice if there was some decent competition though. BC++ is getting
- so overwhelmingly complex that there may soon be no way out of it (ten years
- down the road it may have a reputation similar to that of MS-DOS).
-
- >If you are planning on a career in software engineering (programming),
- >you MUST learn to program Windows or another GUI. Five years from now
- >*NOBODY* is going to hire people to develop character-based user interface
- >applications.
-
- Of course, user-interfaces are just the tip of the iceberg: they simply
- sit on top of all the real work going on below. The stuff I've been working
- on for the past few years doesn't even have a UI in any way, shape, or
- form.
-
- --
- James Hague
- exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
-