Author: Michel Langeveld
Date: 10:38:53 02/01/00
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On February 01, 2000 at 12:44:12, William Kerr wrote: >On February 01, 2000 at 12:22:02, Mike Carter wrote: > >>I started writing a Visual Basic chess program but have decided to migrate to >>C++. Checking out Microsoft compilers, the Enterprise version of 6.0 seems to >>be overkill (and at $1300 out of price range!). Microsoft's Standard version of >>C++ 6.0 is about $100 and the Professional version is $550. Assuming I'm using >>this to write chess code exclusively, is the extra $450 justified to move up to >>Professional? Or is another company (e.g. Borland) a better choice/value? (If >>it matters, I have a Pentium II 400 MHz with 128Mb RAM and would eventually like >>to port the program to WinBoard). Many thanks in advance for your opinion! >> >>Mike Carter (MrMike on ICC) >>mcarter@tdi.net > > >Look in Babbages or Electronic Boutique for in a bright yellow box called >something like "Learn Visual C++ Programming" which includes the learning >edition of MS VC++ 6.0. Its put out by Sams publishing I believe. It costs >around $39. It does not have all the features of the standard edition but until >you get deep into fancy GUI programming you probabily wont miss anything. It >does allow you to do GUI programming however. > >Bill The Learing edition doesn't do optimisation Michel Langeveld
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