From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 26 08:39:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA17322 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 08:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.itribe.net (gatekeeper.itribe.net [209.49.144.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA17296; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 08:39:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708261537.LAA24177@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Received: forwarded by SMTP 1.5.2. Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 11:41:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: Peter Korsten , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATT Unix for Windows ! In-Reply-To: <199708261433.HAA13625@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > 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 > Especially considering c++ is not c. Jamie Bowden System Administrator, iTRiBE.net