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- From: cfleming@netdoor.com (Chuck Fleming)
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- Subject: Re: Recommendation for 32-bit C compiler?
- Date: 3 Jan 1996 22:26:33 GMT
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- Gerald E. Butler (gbutler@usenet.kent.edu.) wrote:
- : Eric Postpischil (edp@math.zk3.dec.com) wrote:
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- : : What's available? Does such a compiler come with Linux? Does GNU have a
- : : 32-bit compiler that runs under DOS? Is there a good shareware compiler
- : : or an inexpensive commercial compiler?
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- : Does Linux come with a compiler? The simple answer is "Yes". GNU
- : C, C++ and Objective C ( gcc, g++ ). To be exact though, "Linux" does not
- : come with compilers, it's _only_ a kernel. The various distributions, slackware
- : for example, come with the compilers and lots of other neat stuff. I say,
- : check it out; it is an outstanding and inexpensive operating system.
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- : Have a Nice Day! 8-)
- : gbutler@res.kent.edu.
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- If you're doing numerical stuff, I would highly recommend Linux over dos.
- From my person experience, using either C or Maple, Linux is several times
- faster, even on a machine with less memory. There are also a huge number
- of mathematical packages that have been ported to linux that can be ftp'd
- for nothing (Sorry maple isn't one of them) Scilab for example (lathough it
- seems a little quirky sometimes) is a matlab look alike that works quite well
- .
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- Have fun,
- Chuck Fleming
- University of Southern Miss.
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