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Subject: Re: The numer 1 compiler, DJGPP or MSVC  Here's a good rating comparision
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 21:56:59 -0400
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In group rec.games.programmer, Adam W Lee says...
> : That's not much of an argument : you guys are talking about a C++ 
> : compiler!  _So_ _what_ if the back end is used for other 
> : languages?  
> 
> The topic says "The numer 1 compiler" (I'm assuming it means number, not
> #1 C++ compiler.

Don't try to run this one by us, you were talking about c++ 
compiler in the post.
 
> : BTW, VC++'s back end is used for Fortran, Visual Basic 5.0, and 
> : an upcomming Java compiler.  Visual C++ is also available to 
> : produce Motorola and PowerPC code, MIPS, all Windows CE platforms 
> : (which use none of these processors). It runs nativly on Dec 
> : Alpha, also.
> 
> Why not just use the FREE java compiler?  Also, don't even try to bring up
> the processor issue since VC can't even step to GCC in this category.

Don't try to run this one by us either, that paragraph was about 
use of the front end and back end of the compiler.  To show that 
this practice had nothing special.	 

It's typical of Usenet posters with a poor understanding of what 
they are talking about to distord other posts' context and 
changing the topic to avoid rebuttal.

P.S. : The 'free java compiler' doesn't do native code, doesn't 
have an IDE, ect..