[comp.lang.c++] Borland C++ responses

Arthur_Klassen@mindlink.bc.ca (Arthur Klassen) (06/16/91)

Thanks to those of you who answered my questions regarding Borland C++. Like
any product, some people are satisfied while some are not. One individual went
so far as to recommend that I buy Zortech's product instead. Let me share
briefly some of the results:

Its compiler error messages leave something to be desired and it doesn't
optimize "as well" as MSC 6.0. (I wonder if one could compile with MS-C 5 and
link using some of Borland's tools?) It compiles especially quickly in
protected mode.

The class library that comes with it is not an MS-Windows library. I was under
the impression that a MacApp style library came with BC++ so this was revealing
to me. One respondent uses the CommonVu library. Another recommended C++/Views.

There seems to be some problem with the IDE and Logitech/Microsoft mice but
things like the Turbo Debugger got kudos and all-in-all, the product was
recommended more often than scorned.

Thanks to rick clark, Jamshid, Tom Brown, Jim James, Heien-Kun Chiang, Paul
Dorsey, and anyone else I've left out due to mis-timed keystrokes in capturing
your names 8-)!

Cheers!

Art Klassen