Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 07:33:29 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl (Peter Korsten) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATT Unix for Windows ! Message-ID: <199708261433.HAA13625@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <19970825224258.55928@grendel.IAEhv.nl> from "Peter Korsten" at Aug 25, 97 10:42:58 pm
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Peter Korsten wrote: > > Perhaps I can spend a week and look for all kinds of tools that > have some, the same, or even more functionality than VC++, but in > my case, it's cheaper to buy VC++. And it comes with manuals and > a great online help, instead of some info files nobody but Gnu > uses. > > But well, this is only from my personal experience from a FreeBSD > system and a Windows NT 4.0 system two metres apart. > > Of course, I find MS's marketing strategy - either buying or crushing > the competition in about _every_ field in computing - disturbing, to > say the least. But they do make decent software. Maybe not all of it, > but much of it. i am surprised by this, a friend of mine here, recently had to learn C. the course dictated the use of VC++. he went thru hell getting VC++ to do what he wanted. i showed him how i would do it in xemacs/gcc (i am NOT xemacs skilled much less a wizard). he wanted to know why he had to use VC++! one ancedote for what its worth. jmb
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