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To: Kashish King who wrote (4983)	6/21/2000 9:50:00 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Rod, I couldn't help thinking of you when I read the following comments on a thread underway over at slashdot (concerning the ultra-stable Microsoft development products); I've just picked a few... "The features you mention are quite useful but IMO the main problem with MSVC, which causes me to tear out my hair on a regular basis, is build management. I have wasted ridiculous amounts of time because of some inconsistency in the dependencies in a complex project. In the end the solution is frequently to do a total rebuild, wasting another 4 hours..." "Well, I am also using MSVC and I surely could imagine more stable system..." "Try "Intellisense" on a large project. I routinely see popup times of 5-10 seconds, and the editor locks up during that time. " "... this statement about it hardly ever crashing.... now now now ..." "used VS for several years, and while there was much that i liked about it, there where a few that i didn't. One is I have had the IDE crash, but thats not the big issue, the big issue is I've had the compiler flake out on certain programs. the compiler would exit out w/ an error(the error was a long complicated thing that made 0 sense, even to the MS people) and a second compile would finish fine" And, the clincher, "They copied those features from Borland products, so when Kylix gets out, maybe more people will start looking at Linux." -- I think the writer of this remark was referring to Microsoft's Intellisense, a flat knockoff of Borland's code completion (which doesn't work much better)... ======================================================== What I think is that you don't use Borland tools and never have, and haven't a clue as to whether they work, don't work, or whatever.