Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls58!mlord
From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Borland C++ 2.0 impressions
Message-ID: <6356@bwdls58.bnr.ca>
Date: 3 Apr 91 16:23:21 GMT
References: <1991Apr1.122952.17519@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Sender: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca
Reply-To: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1991Apr1.122952.17519@watserv1.waterloo.edu> tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes:
<I've now had Borland C++ 2.0 (aka bcc) for almost two weeks, and finally had
...
<Now, for some more subjective observations, both positive and negative; these
<are from the Windows development viewpoint, and ignore the C++ side of things
<completely:
...
<- bcc has no alternate floating-point library available

What about the "Fast Floating Point" option in the IDE (I don't know what
the command line option is for this).

<- bcc can't disable that d*mn copyright banner

Which banner?  The one found in .OBJ files?

<- bcc doesn't know about environment variables

Really?  Please elaborate.. you mean environment variables for bcc, or what?  
The IDE has a DEFINES option on one of the menus for defining compile-time
variables.

<And as to the Whitewater Resource toolkit:
<+ cut and paste available for bitmap/icon editing
<+ string, accelerator and menu "editors"
<- include files can't be used
<- no status box is available for dialog editing
<- WRT is a resource hog!
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