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From: Ron Dippold
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 21:16

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In article <1991Mar26.212334.3100@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
>In article <27645@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
>>
>>Is it just me or is Borland royally shafting C developers?  I mean, we have
>>TP for Windows (which INCLUDES Windows classes!), we have TP 6.0 with
>>ObjectVision, and we have ObjectVision....all include GUI classes.  And now
>>we have BC++, which is highly popular, with NO GUI classes built in.  I
>>feel like we're getting ripped.
>>
>>Then again, maybe I just don't want to code in Pascal and am whining....
>>
>
>Well, considering that uSoft's alternative costs twice as much, it is not a bad
>deal.

Especially when you can take the money you would have paid Borland for those
classes and get a real Windows class library.  There are pleny of them out
there.  I imagine that's why they weren't included...  If you want them
you can get them, and Borland didn't want to stomp on any of those companies
if they didn't have to.

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