Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!csccat!cscdec!jack From: jack@cscdec.cs.com (Jack Hudler) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: Borland C++ vs Microsoft C 5.10 Keywords: windows borland microsoft Message-ID: <196@cscdec.cs.com> Date: 20 Mar 91 21:33:43 GMT References: <350@intertel.UUCP> <7320@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Reply-To: jack@cscdec.cs.com (Jack Hudler) Organization: Computer Support Corporation. Dallas,Texas Lines: 13 In article mckulka@andunie.endor.cs.psu.edu (Christopher Mc Kulka) writes: > >Hey, ease up on Borland. Their compiler has to translate a much more complicated language. The difference is not even that large to begin with. When you >consider that programming with C++ will probably allow you to finish a better >program sooner I think the the small size sacrifice is quite acceptable. Did you ever stop to think that it might cause us ship an extra diskette to our customers, multiply that cost times the number product we ship and it becomes a large number! Many times more than the benefit of C++. -- Jack Computer Support Corporation Dallas,Texas Hudler Internet: jack@cscdec.cs.com