[comp.windows.ms.programmer] More Borland C++ Impressions

oneel@heawk1.rosserv.gsfc.nasa.gov ( Bruce Oneel ) (04/04/91)

Some more BC++ impresssions after a few weeks.  Since I've gotten BC++
I've finally broken down and purchased a 12mhz 2.5meg 286.  Boy is
that fast relative to what I had before (8mhz 8086, 640k).  Yes, not
the fastest but a big step up.  I had previously talked about
different example programs which didn't compile/didn't run/didn't run
quite right in real mode on the previous machine.  All of the example
programs using bcx or bccx compile and run perfectly on the new
machine (just like borland says, no real mode!).  The WRT is now
usable (it swapped itself to death on the old machine) and TDW is
quite nice.  All in all a good package.  My compliments to Borland on
making protected mode programs which work perfectly on a random clone
motherboard with random clone parts stuck in.  

In the spirit of running into the fire rather then slowing stepping
in, I've started to develop an application (toy really) using the
class libraries in the Borland Language Express and C++.  Two very new
things at once (windows and c++).  I purchased Petzold's Windows
programming, the SDK Programmers reference manual, and the SDK
Programming windows (or something like that) at the local discount
book store for about $70 and surrounded by those three, the C++ ARM,
and the BLX mag I'm trying to program....

I'm also pleased because I'm getting more compile/link/debug cycles
running BC++ off of the above machine than I got in any other
environment other than the sparcserver at work with OpenWin.  It seems
even quicker than the origional TC even when doing C++ code.  The
protected mode compilers with 2.5 meg seem to really solve the slow
compile/link cycle I was getting on the 640k machine (45 minutes to
compile one of the C++ windows example programs in todo, 20 minutes to
link just about anything having to do with windows).

bruce
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