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In article <1993Jul21.035845.21596@microsoft.com> jonka@microsoft.com (Jonathan Kagle) writes:
>In article <14JUL93.12564805.0008@tscc.macarthur.uws.EDU.AU> Michael Turk <ABMT@musica.macarthur.uws.EDU.AU> writes:
>
>This error does NOT exist in Visual C++ for Windows. All linker errors are of
>the form: "LINK : error L1001 : option name ambiguous". I'll bet you that
>you have a different linker ahead of the Visual C++ linker in your path. You
>can check this by looking in Environment from the Visual Workbench Options
>menu (if compiling from the environment) or by typing PATH from the command
>line (if compiling from DOS).
>
>>   *  Even the Microsoft Hotline language specialist had not
>>      heard of Linkage Error 3! Then I mentioned my memory size ...
>
>The lowest linker error is L1001.
>
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Jonothan,

I may have to eat my words!  I'll check my path for nasty linkers
when I get home.

I agree with your comments in-principle.

VC++ is targeted at a specific audience - professional developers, not
first-time students of C++.

I am looking for something my students (most of whom have old AT's
or 386SX-20's with 2M mem and a 40-80M Hd), can use to compile and run
the sort of simple programs that are covered in elementary C++ texts
in a first course in C++ and OOP.

My observation is that the students love both (Quick or Turbo) (C or Pas
cal), and the base-level DOS version of Turbo C++.  Each is a simple
development environment where a student can concentrate on the language
rather than the environment.

Michael

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