Python MSVC++ binaries considered evil

Cliff Wells logiplexsoftware at earthlink.net
Tue Jan 22 20:00:16 EST 2002


On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 03:49:08 +0300
Oleg Broytmann wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 04:28:54PM -0800, Cliff Wells wrote:
> > AFAIK, it is also possible to use the free* Borland C++ compiler
(FreeBCC).
> [skip]
> > *If Oleg is reading this, when I say "free", I mean "free", not "free"!
> 
>    Well, even *free* (not *free*) Borlan compiler is better that M$ :)))
> (While I lived in the DOS world, I used Boralnd Pascal and C, and always
> resisted to switch to M$C.)

Yeah, I learned to program on Turbo Pascal (CP/M!).  I've always prefered
Borland to MS, and I suspect that they'll be far more interested in porting
their tools (ala Kylix) to other platforms than MS will.

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Cliff Wells
Software Engineer
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