Borland C++ Builder 6

Great googly moogly! I just installed this compiler. IT'S HORRIBLE!!! It must be the least user-friendly, most full of crap compiler I've ever seen. WTF is Borland thinking? And it's UGLY! By trying to cater to what they think is a developer, by placing all these silly GUI options and windows in there, they have limited the hell out of it. For example, it used to be that with this one you could create a new project and you'd type in some stuff, set your own options, and off you go; now, you get a window with a dozen options for types of projects, and I find what they have in there quite limiting.

I downloaded and installed Borland because a project requires some crap Borland libraries. I think I'll just wander over on Monady and use the older versions in the labs.

 

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Their JBuilder IDE is the best Java interface by far.

 

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I haven't even looked at Java yet. I thought I'd better get competent at C before I branch out.

 

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I disagree with you Adam, in my college most of the guys(me included) use BCB 5 (or 6), it's IDE are the same as delphi and every other borland IDE...

The BCB provides an easy to use interface all you have to do is get used to it... It doesn't slow down the process of development, i have developed applications using MFC, Opengl, Directx, IO Port communications (i study computer engineering) (some of with are in my home page

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) and my last project it's an installation manager/creator like InstallShield!!!

Some projects i prefer to develop using visual c++ cause the size of the executable file it's usually (if not always) smaller...

But, compiler it's a very personal opinion

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this is my point of view of course

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You're probably right, I just have to get used to it. I'm accustomed to writing code in VI, LCC-Win32, or the Visual Studio IDE.

 

I use vim and gcc as well when i dont need any of that other stuff but just try to write an application using a GUI with the native windows API, you would probably kill yourself before you even got a empty window drawn

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Or try writing the skeleton code required for an application to run as a service or as a distributed application, its a nightmare.

If you just want to write an application which doesnt use any speical technologies or libraries i totally agree just use cygwin, lcc or gcc and vim much better, but if you going to write gui's, do com/com+ or dcom apps, do open gl or anythingalong those lines where there is alot of stub code you need to write, your going to pull your hair out if you try to do it in lcc/gcc

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and anyway i think if you choose console application you can simply code in that like it was lcc, plus you said that you have used VC++, i actually think that borland is easier to use, alot easier actually, but each to his own compiler.

but yeh get used to it its a really good compiler.