From: Jared Stevens <stevja AT lineo DOT com>
Organization: Lineo
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Why not DJGPP?
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:59:47 -0700
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On Sat, 04 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> WOW!!! You learn C at school. Just comes to show how BEHIND
> south africa really is. We still do that ol' boring PASCAL
> stuff. It really erretates me because I'm so accustomed to
> working with C (I use DJGPP by the way) and always make
> errors at school.

Glad I don't live in south africa. :)
 
> eg  C/C++         PASCAL
> IF ( a==b )   IF a=b
> 
> sux doesn't it.

Yep. It does. I learned C before I entered High School, but they wouldn't let
me take a C/C++ class because it was the most advanced class in the school, and
it wasn't totally a class yet... it didn't have a set curriculum and they just
threw it in with the Pascal class. (so there was a C++ class and pascal class
in the same room with one teacher.) It didn't become a real class until last year, 
when the computer science AP test was written in C/C++. (And we have the best
computer science department in the district.)

> to reply: DJGPP is an excelent (did someone mention FREE)
> compiler and I had no real trouble (apart from my stupid
> errors) with it.

I agree... I prefer it to Borland and Watcom. It has been faster and has had
way better support, (via this list and a few other resources).

--
Jared Stevens