9 Aug
2004
9 Aug
'04
12:07 p.m.
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Philip Pemberton wrote:
EXACTLY!
but also handy for things like screen capture, or background TSRs
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
Visual C. *spit*.
There are some people who really like its capabilities.
Also, the guy who teaches C++ makes his students use it.
But for a FIRST semester student, if it's used as the
default compiler, MOST of the semester will be taken up
with learning the tools.
I prefer GCC - on RISC OS I use GCCSDK, on Win32 I use
MinGW and on Linux I
use the "normal" IA-32 GCC.
For DOS16 work, I tend to use the freeware Digital Mars C++ compiler.
There are a LOT of compilers that are better suited for LEARNING C than
Visual C is! I send my students to:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/msdos-programmer-faq/part5/section-10.html
And, I finally got the lab for my class switched to a lab
that also has a few Macs! Now, students who want to try
something else will have the opportunity.
depends on
what kind of "real work" you WANT to do.
It works [sort of] as an application launcher.
But most of all, IT WILL GET OUT OF THE WAY when you
want to do "real work".
Very nice when you want to, oh, say, take over
the disc controller and make
it read some oddball format or other :)