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- From: miker3@ix.netcom.com (Mike Rubenstein)
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- Subject: Re: in the beginning...
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 11:22:50 GMT
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- korff.2@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Helmut Kohl) wrote:
-
- > Ladies and Gentlemen,
- >
- > I'm just starting to program in C. What's "the best" compiler to use?
-
- I'm not going to touch that one.
-
- > Having stated my position, the following questions are perfectly
- > understandable:
- >
- > What dies the "visual" mean?
-
- Assuming you mean this as in Visual C++, not much. Visual C++ is a
- trademark of Microsoft for their C[++] compiler. It includes various
- "visual" tools for building a Windows graphic interface, but so do
- just about all other Windows compilers.
-
- > Can I do programming in plain old "C" with a C++ compiler?
-
- That depends on the compiler. Most PC C++ compilers can also do C
- (this is definitely true of Borland and Microsoft), but I believe that
- Symantic only supports C++.
-
- >
- > Of the "student priced editions" of C /C++ compilers around, which is best to
- > start with? I'm looking for opinions on Borland C/C++, Symantic (sp?) ver 7.0
- > and MS C++ (visual, I think) ver 1.52. Info on any others in
- > similar price range, i.e., $50 - $70, appreciated.
-
- For C programming, Borland or Microsoft would be about the same.
- Microsoft adheres to the standard a bit better, but the violations in
- Borland compilers shouldn't cause much trouble. I recently check
- tested Borland 4.52 and found that they'd fixed some violations; more
- in the 32 bit compiler than in the 16 bit.
-
- > Right now I'm using, gulp, djgpp..........
-
- For straight C programming outside of Windows, that's probably as good
- as anything you'll get commercially as far as the compiler itself is
- concerned. The commercial compilers include easier to use debuggers
- and environments that can make programming easier.
-
-
- Michael M Rubenstein
-