From: Rez <rividh DOT minusthispart AT earthlink DOT net>
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Subject: Re: watcom c/c++ vs djgpp?
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 23:03:16 -0700
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Stefan Viljoen wrote:
>
>>Why djgpp over Watcom?  Any and all opinions would be appreciated.
> 
> Well, for me it is one factor - price. I cannot spend the hundreds (or
> thousands) I'll need to pay in my local currency for Watcom. Along with

Present best price for the remaining copies of 11.0b (final version) is
about US$169. I just paid US$40 for v10.6 which is plenty current enough
for our project.

> it produced fast code, 

Not for I/O-intensive apps :(

>  Plus, tips and techniques for doing almost anything, from sound
> programming to high resolution hi color programming is widely and very
> importantly FREELY available - which I am quite sure does not apply to
> watcom in most instances.

Try news://forums.sybase.com/powersoft.public.watcom_c_c++.general
Folk there will bend over backwards trying to help anyone who needs it.
I read both here and there, and I will say the watcom ng is a LOT more
newbie-friendly. An unfortunate but widespread trend in the open source
world is that the first response to any newbie question is usually
"RTFM" and if the docs are beyond their current understanding, tough. 

~REZ~