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

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 14:20:12 02/25/00

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On February 25, 2000 at 17:01:15, Heiko Mikala wrote:

>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.

Are you sure you can build it without debugger?

Eugene

> 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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