At 09:17 AM 5/6/99, you wrote:
>Yes, Borland has much better products that are easier to use. I've always
>found their C/C++ development products to be superior than anything from MS
>. If there is enough of us that says something to Palm, they will begin to
>support other compilers. I think we already got them thinking in the
>correct direction.
>The CDK needs to be compiler-independent. From what I've seen, there may be
>more Borland, VB and third party compilers being used in general than
>MSVC++.
>
>Dave
Yes, we've all heard this before. Everything and anything from Microsoft
is inferior. This is a view commonly held by many MS bashers who have
never had to do any serious development, and deliver real product. Why
is it then that virtually all Windows products are Microsoft Foundation
Class based and built using Microsoft Visual C++?
By the way, Borland with its much better and easier to use tools,
effectively went out of business some time ago. Borland had a good thing
going years ago when they introduced Turbo Pascal for the IBM PC. Again
the raised the bar with Borland C and its visual IDE. After that they
fell behind badly. They were never able to keep up with the rapidly
expanding feature set of the Windows OS.
Finally lets not spend a lot of effort on compiler independence. It is a
goal that has never been achieved. Even Java, with its anywhere anytime
mantra, is splintering. We are familiar with MSVC, we do all of our
Windows work using MSVC, we would much rather see Palm devote its limited
resources to improving the Palm targetted application development tools.
