Xref: utzoo comp.os.msdos.programmer:3705 comp.windows.ms.programmer:1124 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!ns-mx!ccad.uiowa.edu!cadsi From: cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: First impressions of Borland C++ 2.0 Message-ID: <1991Mar3.033130.4813@ccad.uiowa.edu> Date: 3 Mar 91 03:31:30 GMT References: <26410@netcom.COM> Organization: CAD-Research, U. of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Lines: 29 From article <26410@netcom.COM>, by resnicks@netcom.COM (Steve Resnick): > 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!) Interesting to me that Borland won't document Windows SDK themselves. Couldn't get passed the Copyrights I guess. I also received my upgrade recently, but I happen to be relatively unimpressed. BorlandC is now slower than it used to be. In addition, I was dumb enough to be sucked in by their "don't use the Arcane SDK" propoganda. Well, I'm still stuck with it!!! Borland came up with nothing better. Not that I expected them too, I just expected to see something else. Remember, these are first impressions. I just don't see a rose in there. Maybe a marigold, but not a rose.