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- From: forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu (Eric Forbis)
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- Subject: Re: MSDOS C Compiler advice?
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 03:38:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.070519.6080@eagercon.com> eager@eagercon.com (Michael J. Eager) writes:
- >In article 721891955@student.tc.umn.edu, forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu (Eric Forbis) writes:
- >
- >>I noticed that MS C users can upgrade to the SDK for a mere $139; extremely
- >>tempting for a cash-strapped married student. However, I've heard that the
- >>SDK is a time- consuming pain to learn. I haven't heard much about Borland's
- >>frameworks, and assume you've got to dish out the $400; no upgrade. I won't
- >>be doing any Windows programming for some time to come, of course, but
- >>would like to look ahead a bit to avoid rebuying the wheel.
- >
- >The SDK and Borland Framework are both for Windows programming. SDK is complex
- >and detailed. Neither is something that a brand new C programmer should
- >purchase just to have. If you buy it now, chances are that you will end up
- >buying an upgrade by the time you have enough experience with C to use either.
-
- The inevitable upgrade problem hadn't occurred to me; think I'll stick with
- Borland Turbo C. You're right, it'll be awhile before I even consider
- looking at Windows programming.
-
- This is an uncommonly considerate newsgroup; 10 people have kindly sent e-
- mail advice, and not a flame or nasty note amoung them! I expected at least
- a few well- deserved cutting criticisms about my willingness to rely on
- pretty interfaces, something I almost immediately regretted posting.
-
- Thanks much!
-
-
- >
- >>
- >>The only difference I'm aware of is that Borland is said to compile a little
- >>faster and sparely. I'm won't have a lot of time to spend on the compiler
- >>itself, so any pretty point and run features would be welcome.
- >
- >If you can't program in C yet, compilation speed is not important :-).
- >
- >Any, absolutely any compiler will be adequately fast for a course in C programming.
- >Time spent in compilation will not be significant in learning C, and usually
- >is not significant until you are working on files with hundreds or thousands
- >of lines of code, or compiling a significant number of files at a time.
- >
- >Think of it this way, if compiler A compiles your program in seven seconds,
- >how much more productive will you be if compiler B compiles it in five?
- >
- >>
- >>BTW, is it true that there's no direct way to read and write disk volume
- >>labels in C? How do you get around this; is assembly required?
- >
- >No it is not true. Look in the library manual for BIOS calls which will
- >read disk records.
- >
- >
- >---
- >Michael J. Eager Michael.Eager@eagercon.com
- >Eager Consulting (415) 325-8077
- >1960 Park Boulevard, Palo Alto, CA 94306-1141
- >
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- Eric Forbis forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu
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