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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: <1991Mar28.153150.2794@welch.jhu.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 91 15:31:50 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.173542.5153@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1991Mar27.210412.16532@ccad.uiowa.edu>
Reply-To: glenn@welchlab.welch.jhu.edu (Glenn M. Mason)
Organization: Welch Medical Library, Baltimore
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In article <1991Mar27.210412.16532@ccad.uiowa.edu> cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI) writes:
>From article <1991Mar27.173542.5153@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, by altman@sbpmt.cs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman):
>> 
>> Plus, there are many things about BC++ that are either incomplete or
>> not included.  Borland has explained this away by saying that they 
>> wanted to go to market as soon as they had something reasonable to sell.
>> 
>
>Speaking of which, anybody see THEIR Help Compiler yet??????

I think that their scam is to immediately take "something useful" (as they
so elegantly put it) right to market. But the way it really is is that they
want to make millions on an unfinished, unpolished product, and force people
to upgrade in just a few months down the road when the complete package is
finished. I will bet I`ll be getting an upgrade notice in a few months and
I'll be requested to pay another $100. for the enhancements that should have
been included within this release.

The thing that gets on my nerves is that I was too stupid to inquire about
the Windows-based IDE and, more importantly, the Windows class library ...
I just expected that it was included (didn't seem like a mistake that
Borland would make). Now I know better.

Glenn