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- From: jamie@eri.erinet.com (James F. Clark III)
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- Subject: Re: public domain C compiler??
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 16:41:18 -0500
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- SeanHenriques (seanh@soho.ios.com) wrote:
- : I'm trying to teach myself C and I'm wondering if there is a public
- : domain C compiler for DOS/Windows??
-
- I checked SimTel's December 95 database and found:
-
- SimTel/msdos/c/ccompile.zip Small 'C' compiler
- SimTel/msdos/c/mc302pc1.zip MICRO-C PC 'C' compiler v3.02
- SimTel/msdos/c/pcc12c.zip Personal C compiler. Fully functional, C WARE
-
- I don't know anything about these compilers expect they are free to try
- for the download. They are something to experiment with at least. The
- USA SimTel mirrors are:
-
- Concord, CA: ftp.cdrom.com (192.216.191.11)
- Urbana, IL: uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu (128.174.5.14)
- Rochester, MI: OAK.Oakland.Edu (141.210.10.117)
- St. Louis, MO: wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4)
- Norman, OK: ftp.uoknor.edu (129.15.2.20)
- Corvallis, OR: ftp.orst.edu (128.193.4.2)
- Salt Lake City, UT: ftp.pht.com (198.60.59.5)
-
- : And is it true that its best to learn C before attempting to learn C++?
-
- If you have learned structed programing in another language, you can learn
- C in about two weeks if you work at it. The concept of OOP could take you
- about six weeks if you spent 40 hours a week, and that's before even trying
- to learn a OOP language like C++. OOP theory and OO Design is a much more
- difficult pardigm to comprehend than structured programming. After you have
- learned the mind set of OOP, you could learn C++ in about three to four weeks.
-
- : Thanks
-
- : Sean
-
- Your Welcome,
-
- Jamie
-
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