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- From: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Difference between Turbo C++ and Borland C++
- Keywords: C++, IBM PC, Borland
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.005708.16078@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 00:57:08 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.175238.23743@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Organization: University of Maine, Department of Computer Science
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- In article <1993Jan21.175238.23743@cbfsb.cb.att.com> kkuehl@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (Kevin Kuehl) writes:
- >
- >Could someone please explain to me the difference between Turbo C++ and
- >Borland C++? I see there is about a $200 price difference and wonder
- >what I get for the extra $200. Also, do you thing the extra $200 is worth
- >is for non-production programming? I will be using is mostly just to
- >write small programs to keep my skills sharp and try new things.
-
- From what I know, the current differences between the Turbo C++ and the
- Borland C++ lines are in the following areas:
-
- Code Generation (BC++ will generate 386 instructions, at an option
- to help speed up far address use, for example)
- Optimization (I'm pretty sure the optimizer in the current product
- levels is a little better in BC++ than TC++)
- Debugger (BC++ comes with Turbo Debugger/Turbo Assembler combo --
- a very powerful professional debugger)
- Assembler (as in above)
-
- You will notice that as BC++ grows, TC++ get the hand-me-down options and
- strengths...since I've been a BC++ owner for so long, I haven't looked at TC++
- in a while.
-
- Oh...you could save a little more money, too, by purchasing a DOS only version
- of TC++ (I'm pretty sure they still exist -- maybe in an earlier rev #)
- if you're not interested in Windows.
-
- To answer your question -- stick with TC++. If you need to add better
- debugging later, you can add the Turbo Debugger/Turbo Assembler on later.
-
- Jeff
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