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Subject: Re: OT: Visual Studio .NET question (was "How's Java these days?")

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:17:20 05/17/02

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On May 17, 2002 at 09:39:18, Roy Eassa wrote:
[snip]
>Dann,
>
>I've heard good things about Visual Studio .NET from an ease-of-use standpoint.
>But somebody here mentioned that the C/C++ is not very compliant with standards
>(or something like that).  Do you know anything about that?

Have them show you specific instances.  People like to say stuff like that.  I
have found that MS products are as good or better than any others in this
regard.

Furthermore, the new .NET compiler outperforms Intel C++ 6.0 most of the time.
I don't have a copy of Intel C++ 6.01 yet, and maybe that will change things.
But the MS compiler looks very, very good.  Also, it creates smaller binaries
(even though they are faster).  I think I know the magic of Eugene's blazing
crafty builds.

There is some crankyness with the Windows header files.  I have found with the
new .NET compiler you have to put windows.h FIRST if you use it.

If you have not tried .NET, I strongly recommend it.  Even the VB .NET stuff is
cool (it has real try/catch and all kinds of nifty stuff in it) [I never much
liked VB before except as a quick, knock-off front-end].



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