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- From: amoreira@nine.com (Alberto C Moreira)
- Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C or C++ for a 14-year old?
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 16:25:16 GMT
- Organization: Number Nine Visual Technology
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- Dan Pop <danpop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
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- >lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu (Kriang Lerdsuwanakij) writes:
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- >>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.
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- >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).
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- If you're sensitive to that, use Win95; if the system crashes, all you
- have to do is press the reset button. But if you have a screwup from
- your workstation or terminal, you depend on the sysop to undo the
- mess. I use PCs and Workstations intensely; I consider my home PC
- with Win95 a far superior computing environment than anything else
- I have experienced, be it Unix, NT or whatever.
-
- With the added bonus: I can go to DOS and play a real fast and
- challenging DOOM anytime I feel like.
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- _alberto_
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