On (02 Jan 95) david begley wrote to Keith Richardson...



 db> On Jan 01, 1995 at 19:28, Keith Richardson of 3:711/934.6 wrote:



 KR> i looked at microsoft's offerings and decided that, although i dont

 db> mind

 KR> people thinking that i'm mad, i draw the line at being thought stupid,

 KR> so i bought borland instead. may have been a waste of time though (-8



 db> OWL may be better than MFC, but only one comes with the WATCOM compiler; 

 db> shame about Borland's optimiser (and countless bugs)...



realistically speaking, i am unlikely to write any apps big enough to

make the difference in the optimiser apparent. now that i have bc4.5, i

am told that all the bugs have gone (theres probably just as many new

ones, but then wasn't watcom's service pack nearly as big as an os/2

one? (-8 ). for me as more a hacker than a comp sci grad, the better

organisation of owl was of greater benefit. unfortunately, i think that

vc++ and mfc will probably prevail eventually, there is a nasty

inevitability that if you are not bug for bug compatible with M$ you

will probably lose out in the end (for the time being at least.).



                        Keith



... It aint incorrect, just different.



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