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In article <1992Aug6.230926.12692@moe.einstein.com>, jasper@iris.einstein.com (John Scott Peter XXXIII) writes:
> In article <1992Aug6.062043.28002@cs.UAlberta.CA>, ken@cs.UAlberta.CA (Huisman Kenneth M) writes:
> > 
> > We are currently trying to decide between
> > borland c++ and microsoft c/c++ for windows development.
> > 
> > What are the relative strengths / weaknesses of these
> > two products?
> 
> Please, post any opinions to the net.  I, and I'm sure a lot of other people,
> would be interested in hearing opinions on the differences between BC and MSC.
> Just about all I know about these 2 products is the features each has: the
> biggest feature difference is that BC 3.1 has templates, and MSC 7.0 does not.
> Otherwise, the list of development utilities seems comparable: both have
> integrated environments.  BC's is Windows-based; MSC's can be run from Windows,
> but seems to be character-video only.  Both have Windows development class
> libraries, but I've heard that MSC's is not as "thick" a layer as BC's.  Both
> have source/class browsers, and execution profilers, as well as the standard
> debuggers, assemblers, etc.  Both have register parameter-passing, but only
> MSC has a p-code generating option.
> 
> However, not having really used either product, I can't say how WELL each one
> does what it does.  That's what I'd like other yoosers' opinions on.

I got two replies via email to my origional question.  ( thanks to the two people
who replied).  One was a Borland user, and was generally happy with 
Borland's product.  The other was a Microsoft user who said he would not
reccomment the microsoft compiler because of serious bugs in microsoft's
class libraries.

Ken

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(( Ken Huisman, Bsc.                                                ))
(( Programmer, City of Edmonton                                     ))
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