Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/09/02/13:11:31
WU David S said :
> And the top 0xf reaons why I use DJGPP:
>
> 0xf) 32 bit compilers: good.
> 0xe) 16 bit compilers: bad.
> 0xd) I like big ints.
> 0xc) I like big arrays.
> 0xb) Its free!
> 0xa) The name D. J. Delorie reminds me of B. J. Birdie. (Toronto joke.)
> 0x9) You can get new releases via ftp.
> 0x8) Makes you feel a little like you are a big, powerful UNIX user, when in
> fact all that you have is a PC.
> 0x7) It makes my code work a lot faster than Turbo C did.
> 0x6) I like the name GNU. (although I can't pronounce it.)
> 0x5) They send me mail.
> 0x4) When you are confused, you can bother the author with your questions.
> 0x3) I don't have to worry about not owning QEMM or any other memory manager.
> 0x2) I don't have to worry about writing programs that work under Windows 3.1.
> 0x1) When I misuse pointers, my programs last longer than they did in TC.
> 0x0) There are at least a million command line options that I will never
> know about.
>
>
> warniing, this list has been null-padded to make 16 reasons.
... and I could not say more !
djgpp is great !
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