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From:	"A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: DJGPP HELP!!!!!
Date:	16 Jul 1996 16:49:59 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>On 16 Jul 1996, Colin MacDonald wrote:
>> and if you
>> spend five minutes going through the documentation, you'll discover 
>> that DJGPP is definitely NOT a good package if you are learning C. I 
>> have been using UNIX C for about five years now, and I still have 
>> trouble with DJGPP.
>> Try something like Turbo C/C++ or Visual C,
>

>With all due respect, I disagree.  I don't see any reason why DJGPP
>couldn't be a tool to learn programming at least as good as Turbo C.  If
>you see any trouble with the docs or other tools, or the necessary setup,
>that would prevent people from using DJGPP as such a tool, please tell.  
>Personally, I don't know about anything in Turbo/Visual C that makes them 
>a better learning tool.  Are they better documented?  Are they better 
>supported?  Do you get your questions answered faster and better by their 
>support staff?


i usually don't post stuff just to say i agree but i thnk this time i am 
justified. i began learning C around March of this year. C is the first 
compiled language that i have programmed in. before that i had programmed in 
z-80 assembly, basic and something called euphoria (which is really fun, 
search for it on the web and try it.) djgpp is the first ever C compiler i 
used have used and i did not thing there was anything lacking in terms of 
speed or documentation. i do not have a speed deamon either: a 486 dx4-75 
with 8 mb ram. an ide is always nice when you are dealing with more than 
just a few source files but in the learning stages, you really don't need an 
ide or make, just a text editor is fine.

i also find it important to have full 32-bit environment w/o stupid 
restrictions. i prefer dealing with dpmi to tring to fit stuff into 64K 
segments any time. all i want to say is, if someone like me can write a 
simple netbios chat program 3 months after starting to learn C using djgpp, 
that indicates good design and good documentation (not to forget ralph 
brown's interrupt list here.

thanks one more time to the people working on djgpp.

sinan.

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