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From: glenn@welch.jhu.edu (Glenn M. Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Borland shafts C programmers AGAIN!
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.152518.2529@welch.jhu.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 91 15:25:18 GMT
References: <27650@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1991Mar27.173542.5153@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Reply-To: glenn@welchlab.welch.jhu.edu (Glenn M. Mason)
Organization: Welch Medical Library, Baltimore
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In article <1991Mar27.173542.5153@sbcs.sunysb.edu> altman@sbpmt.cs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman) writes:
>In article <27650@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
>> [stuff deleted]
>>Of course, then again, I am just whining....
>>
>
>I know I am going to regret saying this, BUT:
>
>C++ is much more complicated than a version of Pascal designed specificly 
>for Windows programing.  How else can they support a one "Hello, World!" 
>program for Windows?
>
>TP is Borland's own language, they don't need to follow anyone else's 
>specs on how things should work.  If it doesn't work the way they liek
>thye can change it.

Of course they can't ... not if they want to sell the product. C++ is not
Borlands own language. BC++ follows as closely as possible the AT&T 2.0
C++ specification as does Zortech and others. The AT&T specification is as
close to a standard that exists for the language.

Glenn