Re: Should I buy BC++ 3.1??

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From: James Hague
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:12

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Pete Grant writes:
>
>Pardon if my bias shows -- but I've been a long time user of Borland products
>and have dabbled with several other PC IDE products to include IBM OS/2 
>Workframe 2, MS PWB, etc.  None of them can hold a candle to Borland!!!!
>(IBM actually comes close :-)).

It would be nice if there was some decent competition though.  BC++ is getting
so overwhelmingly complex that there may soon be no way out of it (ten years
down the road it may have a reputation similar to that of MS-DOS).

>If you are planning on a career in software engineering (programming),
>you MUST learn to program Windows or another GUI.  Five years from now
>*NOBODY* is going to hire people to develop character-based user interface
>applications.

Of course, user-interfaces are just the tip of the iceberg:  they simply
sit on top of all the real work going on below.  The stuff I've been working
on for the past few years doesn't even have a UI in any way, shape, or
form. 

--
James Hague   
exuhag@exu.ericsson.se

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