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From: horstman@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Cay Horstmann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C++ from Microsoft???
Message-ID: <1990Feb3.074111.8859@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
Date: 3 Feb 90 07:41:11 GMT
References: <1990Jan24.175408.9227@aucs.uucp> <3205@hp-sdd.hp.com> <329@wattres.UUCP>
Reply-To: horstman@sjsumcs.SJSU.EDU (Cay Horstmann)
Organization: San Jose State University
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In article <329@wattres.UUCP> steve@wattres.UUCP (Steve Watt) writes:
>Borland's beta release is imminent?  That's good.  Maybe they'll get
>a debugged version out by the time Microsoft releases...  But I doubt it,
>since I have yet to see a debugged Borland product.  Mind you, Microsoft
>ain't a lot better, they are better.
>
I don't think that is quite fair. For example, Turbo Debugger is a LOT
better than CodeView. And the beta-test of their new C compiler (the one
with the -P option which will compile C++ 2.0) comes a Turbo Debugger 
that knows about classes and inheritance. Unlike Zortech, it has a
virtual 386 mode driver (or unlike Microsoft, for that matter--you need
a third-party add-on, Magic CodeView, to run CV in a virtual machine on
a 386.) Are you listening, Walter? 

I think Borland is really going to beat Microsoft this time around.

Cay