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Subject: Borland C++ v5.5 for free!

Author: Heiko Mikala

Date: 14:01:15 02/25/00


Hi everybody!

Great news for all programmers of freeware chess engines (and all the other
C/C++ programmers too):

Borland just released the new version of it's C/C++ compiler for free download
from their web-site (www.borland.com)!!! It's only the command line tools and
the normal runtime-library and STL, no IDE included, no MFC or VCL library, but
nevertheless you get everything you need to build fullblown windows
applications. And a Linux-version is said to follow too.

This may not be the best news for GCC (which I've been using myself for a long
time some years ago), but I guess it's good news for all the rest of us.

I'm just downloading it right now, so please wait with your own download for
10-20 minutes until my download is finished ;-)

I'll try it on my own chess program and then I'll be able to compare the results
to those obtained with VC++ 6.0 and Watcom C++ 10.0a. Can't wait to see it.
Go!Zilla says 17 minutes left until the download is finished...

Wow, after the release JBuilder Foundation (a free, fullblown, super-good IDE
for Java on Windows and Linux) this is the second big punch from Borland. I
start to fall in love with them again :) (have been buying and using
Turbo/Borland Pascal many years ago)

Wow.

Heiko.



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