Borland C++ Builder 6 Personal

Customer Rating:
Summary: Son needed for class
Comment: So I bought this item. At first he had some difficulty with converting the files he already had, but after talking with the teacher and other students, he now has it up and running. He likes the program, but as he is only using it for his own enjoyment, we did not need to worry about copyrite issues. For what we needed it for, it works great.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Borland's OK
Comment: Its good to have and nice to use, but it is a little confusing unless you read the entire manual. I can't really complain.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Piece of $h|t is what this is!!
Comment: Man if you are thinking of buying this well don't especially if you are a beginner or barely going to get your first compiler and if you aren't new to C++ then just stay with that same compiler you own or get another one.

This was my first compiler and I bought this for somewhere in the 70bucks and I must say I was glad cause this is what I want to do which is code but man this is trash!!!

It can't make an .exe like other compiler.
Example: Dev-C++ when you compile something and everything goes right and you made no error a exe then comes but NO that is not the way Borland makes it instead they give you some other things which is just trash

Asking for more code.
Example: I made an easy code and it had problems and didn't want to make it but with the same code I compiled it in Dev-C++ and it compile and worked perfectly. But then later I fixed to work for Borland Builder but I needed to add a lot of code just for same results.

Oh let me mention Dev-C++ is FREE and Borland cost me 70$

Pros:
Nice Presentation(if you get a screenshot from Borland and Dev you will notice that Borland look more better)

Wow a box and a book(yup thats pretty much it)

Verdict: -10.0 out of 5.0 yes this sucks!!!!!!! It may look nice but come on people there are better compilers you can get

Customer Rating:
Summary: Borland is now dead
Comment: I've been a Borland C/C++ programmer since Turbo C 2.0 and for years it's been the best compiler. Not now. I purchased both Borland C++ Builder 6 and Microsoft Visual C++.NET - the Visual C++ box weighed approx 6 times that of Borland's box (and although weight don't make a compiler, it's an indicator of the vendor's features and support). Visual C++ gives you more bang for the buck but I don't like Microsoft's managed .NET direction. Looks like it's time to seek a Linux solution!

Customer Rating:
Summary: Sad just plain sad
Comment: I was excited to come back to Borland. I remember that day's under Turbo C++. They truly had a superior product then first of it was fast. If you had to debug with in the class libraries you could step into them and find out where the problem was. What I have found with Borland today that scares me is it's based around Pascal. That is just not smart! It adds additional complexity to debugging. Try to step into it. I also could not understand why CBuilder violates some OOP OOD concepts through public member variables except when absolutely nessecary. I understand why now. This is a dangerous path...take it at your own risk. Pray that you never have to resolve a serious low level soft ware problem with this. It looks like it will have some serious teeth to bite with. I would have give this zero but the option wasn't available.


Microsoft truly has a better product than this. And I was truly excited to see what new ideas Borland had come up with when I came back to this tool set. Now I'm doing everything in my power to get this out of here.