Xref: utzoo comp.os.msdos.programmer:3676 comp.windows.ms.programmer:1101 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!netcom!resnicks From: resnicks@netcom.COM (Steve Resnick) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: First impressions of Borland C++ 2.0 Message-ID: <26410@netcom.COM> Date: 1 Mar 91 21:11:59 GMT References: Organization: Me? Organized? You gotta be kidding! Lines: 34 In article oneel@heawk1.rosserv.gsfc.nasa.gov ( Bruce Oneel ) writes: >Overall summary? For $100 it is great. I'm using a very underpowered >machine and it is usable. Overall the documentation lacks a coherent >feel from the windows point of view though. Most of the intro >material is for DOS, when you hit the windows material there is very >little hand holding. The readme is quite important. According to >borland on CI$ the limitation on real mode windows apps comes from a >problem with the linker which was resolved but not QC'd properly >before shipment. It works but isn't supported until they QC it enough >so that they are happy. It looks a bit rushed in places but this is >really a combination of a 1.0 product and a 2.0 product. The windows >part is 1.0 and the c++ is 2.0. > Somewhere in the vast documentation, they recommend Charles Petzold's Windows progrmming book. I forget the title. The idea was that there is a *lot* of information needed to know about Windows, and Petzold is one of the experts. (I have his book on OS/2 PM programming and it's excellent!) Cheers! Steve -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- resnicks@netcom.com, apple!camphq!105!steve.resnick, IFNA: 1:143/105.0, USNail: 530 Lawrence Expressway, Suite 374 Sunnyvale, Ca 94086 - In real life: Steve Resnick. Flames, grammar and spelling errors >/dev/null 0x2b |~ 0x2b, THAT is the question. The Asylum OS/2 BBS - (408)263-8017 12/2400,8,1 - Running Maximus CBCS 1.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------