Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 08:32:01 02/02/00
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On February 01, 2000 at 22:45:23, James Robertson 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 > >I have the professional edition which I got for somewhere between $100 and $200, >I don't remember which. I bought it mail order with a student discount from >something like the MS store. I'll look it up and see if I can find what it is >called. >Anyway, I have been very happy with MSVC++, professional edition. I have had no >problems with the optimizations, and I like the interface. Beware of the >profiler though. It is horrible to get to work, and even when it does you are >not sure if it isn't just spitting out garbage. For students MSVC is here $25 at most. >James
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