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- From: wright@staff.tc.umn.edu (Mark Wright)
- Subject: Re: Brief info?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.093845.21251@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Keywords: Brief
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- References: <1992Oct28.225639.29556@cmcl2.nyu.edu> <1992Nov5.044314.3063@ve3ied.UUCP> <Bx9twB.HEF@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 09:38:45 GMT
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- In article <Bx9twB.HEF@cmcl2.nyu.edu> snyder@acf3.nyu.edu (Kirk Snyder) writes:
- >bduncan@ve3ied.UUCP (Bill Duncan) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Oct28.225639.29556@cmcl2.nyu.edu> snyder@acf3.nyu.edu (Kirk Snyder) writes:
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- [ stuff deleted...]
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- >I suppose I was vaguely hoping some Borland employee would read
- >this group, and reassure me that the product would be continued
- >(and enhanced maybe?) I got no such reassurance, and also have
- >not noticed any advertisements since Borland bought it. It
- >leaves me with the sinking feeling that Borland bought it to
- >enhance their own compiler products, and doesn't intend to
- >devote much time and money to Brief. I'm not sure exactly what
- >enhancements I would want, but versions for Windows,
- >Presentation Manager, or NT might be nice. At least it would
- >give me the feeling that the product will be around a while.
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- Actually, the only Brief enhancement I can think of is something that
- Borland is doing with their IDE - different text styles for different code
- elements. Really nice in the IDE. Something I'd really like to see in Brief!
-
- >
- >-- Kirk Snyder
- > snyder@depaul.edu
- >
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- --
- Mark Wright
- wright@epx.cis.umn.edu
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