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- From: Richard Baxter <R.M.Baxter@massey.ac.nz>
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- Subject: Re: Programming under Windows 95
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 08:33:06 +1200
- Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Steve Jones wrote:
-
- > >I use Watcom C 10.5, and it has to be the best C compiler I have ever
- > >used, on the cd, there are windows 3.1, dos and windows NT versions - the
- > >windows NT version works perfectly with windows 95! I would definately
- > >reccomend watcom to you!
- >
- > A few questions:
- >
- > What does it cost?
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- I got it at an educational price, about NZ$170, have a look at www.watcom.on.ca.
-
- > How does it compare to Visual or Borland in terms of its environment?
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- Its IDE has to be the best I've used! I've not seen Borlands latest effort, but feel confident
- that they would find it hard to compete with Watcoms completeness.
-
- > What sort of class library does it feature (seem's like I
- > heard they use MFC).
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- You would have heard right, it does offer support for MFC (if you want to pay Microsoft!?!) but
- I write my own windows classes, so this does not affect me - in fact I reccommend writing your
- own classes!
-
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- Plus Watcom produces the fastest executables on the PC!!
-