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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 23:33:06 +0100
To: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Goncalo Farias <mad AT grupo DOT bfe DOT pt>
Subject: Re: DJGPP HELP!!!!!

At 18:35 16-07-1996 -0300, you wrote:

>>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 think Eli, that the anwer for this question is primarily a market one,
>there are dozens of books which more or less explicitly intend to teach or
>include in its examples how to use Turbo (Borland) C/C++; the same for
>another dozen for Microsoft, which incidentally also own a Editing House of
>its own "Microsoft Press".


I disagree. DJGPP complies with the ANSI C standard  and i believe that
everybody should/do start learning ANSI C instead of some other "flavour"
like Borland's or MS' so it makes DJGPP as good as any other C compiler,
it's just a matter of getting a good ANSI C book like Stephen G. Kochan's
"Programming in Ansi C".