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From: "Graeme Evans" <evans@fourny.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Visual Studio/C++
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:08:11 +0100
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Nicko

I'm pretty sure there is a visual studio student package you can get at
'student rates' (i.e. still dead expensive). If i remember you get all the
visual tools professional edition for about 60 notes. Had a look in Thins
lately? If you werent a student, the 'learning edition' of VC++ would weigh
in at a hefty £70 out of pc world. And an upgrade from any version
professional to 6 professional will set you back a mean £250 towards bill's
retirement fund. I dont think microsoft give stuff away on magazines but
there was a microsoft book once at about £30 that had Visual C++ V1.0 (eek!)
full version on a CD at the back. Needless to say, stay well away from this
retro pile of poo unless you really like windows 3.1. It only does 16-bit
apps.

I think the learning edition of VC4 has everything except optimisation,
static libraries and a debug context stack display (the latter is a really
annoying omission!). But it does act as the best yaroze dev environment too,
with a great source browser and context sensitive yaroze help.

Never used delphi, vb or java so cant comment.

yer pal

graeme