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Date:      Tue, 26 Aug 1997 11:41:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>
To:        "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.iaehv.nl>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ATT Unix for Windows !
Message-ID:  <199708261537.LAA24177@gatekeeper.itribe.net>
In-Reply-To: <199708261433.HAA13625@hub.freebsd.org>

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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




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