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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Is djgpp better than Watcom C?
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:12:22 +0300 (GMT)
Message-ID: <9610211412.aa08304@ailin.inti.edu.ar>

>David M Barrett (dbarrett AT khaki DOT engin DOT umich DOT edu) wrote:
>: I used Watcom for a while (an older release), and was very turned off by 
>: the buggy IDE (it would sporatically not allow me to quit or delete 
>: initialization files or any number of bizarre occurances).  I switched to 
>: DJGPP and then proceeded to learn makefiles and the like, and I am 
>: infinately more happy.  Plus, I like the AT&T asm syntax as well as the 
>: huge support base.  I have no idea how the actual compilers compare, but 
>: don't be afraid to take the plunge just because it doesn't have a snazzy 
>: ide (or, check out Rhide if you're into that sort of thing).  In 
>: addition: DJGPP is FREE!

And Stuart replayed:
>To be honest here, I have never used a IDE ever. I find them to be to 
>confusing. If I know what I want I put it into the command line of gcc or 
>gxx, but if you forget in the IDE is sometimes makes a mess.. I just just 
In RHIDE you can see what exactly is the command line passed to gcc, so you can 
check all.

>use makefiles and use VI for DOS which I find works great. I think IDEs 
>are probably used (I said probably so don't jump done my throat) by 
>beginners more than people that have programed for a while, or in Unix in 
>general.
I have more than 5 years programming and I find very useful have an IDE. A good 
C editor integrated with a source level debugger and a project manager is a 
very very useful thing for beginners and experts. You are thinking in that way 
only because you never tried it.

SET



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Work: INTI (National Institute of Industrial Technology) Sector: ICE 
(Electronic Control & Instrumentation)
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