From:	Psilon AT concentric DOT net (Avery Lee)
Newsgroups:	comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,rec.games.programmer
Subject:	Re: The numer 1 compiler, DJGPP or MSVC Here's a good rating comparision
Date:	Mon, 08 Sep 1997 05:03:43 GMT
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Joel Rosenthal <ZZTiger AT mho DOT net> wrote:

>DJGPP does not have 300 tools!
>Also, you said the US price of MSVC 1.0 Prefessional was $200!
>MSVC 5. might cost that, butm guess what?
>
>I bought a book about game programming that cost $50.00.
>It had a 900 page book
>It have another electronic book
>It had a 2D engine
>It had MSVC 1.0
>
>Surely, the compiler probably costed $20.00 at the most!
>By the way, that book was Teach Yourself Game programming in 21 days.

MSVC 1.0 isn't even relevant to this discussion.  It's a 16-bit compiler.
DJGPP produces 32-bit code, like MSVC 2.0+ and Watcom C/C++32.  Only the
crappiest of 32-bit compilers (hmmm... Borland? :) ) would be beaten by a
16-bit compiler in terms of the speed of a serious program.

(By the way, they give away VC++1.52b with VC++4 and above, so it's not
surprising it's so cheap.)


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