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- From: z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Ralph Silverman)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: public domain C compiler??
- Date: 30 Jan 1996 16:48:49 GMT
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- James F. Clark III (jamie@eri.erinet.com) wrote:
- : 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:
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- : 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
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- : 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:
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- : 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)
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- : : 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.
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- : : Thanks
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- : : Sean
-
- : Your Welcome,
-
- : Jamie
-
- : --
- : --
- : jamie@erinet.com | There is nothing so simple that
- : Dayton, OH | it can't be done wrong.
-
- --
- **********begin r.s. response**********
-
- am personally familiar with
- these products in some releases...
-
- the most generally useful for a beginner
- is
- pcc
- ,
- though all these are very interesting...
-
- also you might find
- c--
- ,
- a very worthy product.
-
- lately,
- pacific ppd
-
- is available in shareware form.
- this one (pacific ppd)
- is amazing!
-
- **********end r.s. response************
- Ralph Silverman
- z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us
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