Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/10/21/13:51:50
>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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