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Technology Stocks : BORL: Time to BUY!
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To: Kashish King who wrote (1017)12/1/1996 1:03:00 AM
From: Bipin Prasad   of 10836
 
Rod, your knowledge (and opinion) of Borland is very, very dated
indeed ! OWL 1.0 is old history. This was the time when even I
had chosen to move to Microsoft C++. Four years can change a lot
of things. Remember that exactly a year ago, Bill Gates thought
Internet mania was crap.

You would do well to review product features continuously. At least
once a year just to see if technology has changed under your foot.

Agree with you on overloaded assignment operator in string class
being important. It has been a long time since anyone had a string
class without the =() operator.

Your opinion on the debugger being warmed over DOS is also 1992-3
vintage.

Now that MFC is bundled with Borland C++ your intense dislike for
Borland class hierarchy has an answer. I don't hold strong feelings
for/againt OWL or MFC. I used to prefer OWL because it provided
lot more abstraction from the Windows environment. MFC is a very
thin layer away from Windows staggerring API. MFC is more popular
and it is easier to find programmers for it. Also, in many places
it has become the standard. BC 5.1 includes MFC. This is good
enough.

If I take all your comments in the proper timeframe, then I should
read your comments to say that Borland C++ WAS a weaker product.
This was true. There was a time when Borland gave away its significant
edge and Microsoft took lead. I did switch compilers then (actually
had both and used one more than the other). However, that time
has come and gone and Borland is definitely in the lead.

And that lead is going to widen very significantly with the
Delphi-like component interface for C++ and the Golden Gate initiative
that includes Delphi, C++, and Java with similar interface and
development.

You observations are factual but time-shifted by several years.
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