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- From: Dan Pop <danpop@mail.cern.ch>
- Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C or C++ for a 14-year old?
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 13:06:35 +0100
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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- lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu (Kriang Lerdsuwanakij) writes:
-
- >I would also recommend DOS. At least the development tools are better and
- >easier to use, better online help system. You can write a program,
- >compile, run and debug right within the compiler.
-
- That is, unless the buggy program crashes your beloved "operating system"
- or the bug has a chance to raise its ugly head (many bad pointer accesses
- are detected only when the "debugged" code is ported to a platform with
- memory protection).
-
- Dan
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- Dan Pop
- CERN, CN Division
- Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch
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