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- From: Adam.Morris@octacon.co.uk (Adam Morris)
- Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C or C++ for a 14-year old? The definitive reply
- Date: 22 Jan 1996 13:36:27 GMT
- Organization: Octacon
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- >C now. I need a good compiler that isn't huge for DOS (NOT GCC, it's
- >freakin twenty megs without any docs!). My entire point is the fact that
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- I you don't mind paying then Borlands Turbo C used to be good (and small)
- The version I had could be run on a 512k machine from about six 360k
- floppies. :-) This was back in '92, I don't know how big it is now.
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- Borland C++ v4 takes up around 80Meg for a full install, so if you want a
- reasonable compiler, then you are going to have to put up with the space
- it takes up.
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- Adam Morris
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