From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
To: T DOT W DOT Seddon AT ncl DOT ac DOT uk, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: need advice on djgpp vs. Turbo C
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 18:19:49 +0300 (GMT)
Message-ID:  <9610171819.aa03487@ailin.inti.edu.ar>

Hi T.W.

>Christopher White (cswhite AT comp DOT uark DOT edu) wrote:
>> One thing to consider is that Borland has practically dropped all support
>> for it's DOS-based compilers.  Just visit their homepage - you'll see
>> nothing about Turbo C++ 3.0.  And I highly doubt there will be another
>> version (DOS-based) released.

>I'd advise Turbo C if you're learning C/C++. I've got Turbo C++ 3.0 myself
>and it's excellent for a beginner, especially the on-line help, 
Take a look to the RHIDE for DJGPP.

>colouring
>of different program elements (helps a lot if you're not used to /* */!),
Again take a look to RHIDE.

>the quick compilation time and the handy debugger. 
Quick compilation isn't a good feature for DJGPP, but in RHIDE Beta 6 you'll 
get a nice debugger.

>After programming in 
>BASIC for several years, I installed Turbo C++ and was writing a program 
>within minutes, thanks to the online help. The debugger is great, and the 
>huge pointer facility means you can ignore the 64K segment limit (640K of 
>(effectively) flat-mode memory -- pretty handy).
But:
1) Is slow.
2) Is less than 640Kb, and try to debug a program that uses 500Kb of data.

>Well, after that eulogy I will say that the code it produces isn't 
>particularly quick and the IDE is no good for debugging Mode-X or 
>graphics programs, but if you're learning C then the whole thing is a 
>godsend. It took me about two weeks to get used to the lack of online 
>help and syntax highlighting under djgpp. (And no, my family doesn't work 
>for Borland :-)
Tom that's because you don't have RHIDE!
Of course, for a totally newby, TC is easy to install, but you don't have the 
great support that the this list implies!!

SET.

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