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Hi!

5-Мар-2002 13:29 rkanarek AT sprintmail DOT com (Richard Kanarek) wrote to
opendos AT delorie DOT com:

RK> 1) Turbo C 2.01 by Borland. Arguably the best overall C compiler ever.

     This is not completely true. I already not remember if its
codegenerator have bugs (Borland's C++ series definitely have a lot of
bugs), but its resulting code is not superior in sense of optimization. Try
to compare with very old MS Quick C and Watcom C/C++. Its even worser in
this sense than BC++ 3.x, for example.

RK> The compiler is all but bug free.

     Again: I not sure in this now (don't work with it many years), but
there may be present bugs, as in all Borland's compilers.

RK> 2) Watcom C/C++ is now available for free (see
RK> http://www.openwatcom.org/).

     Not yet. They prepare Watcom 11c patch, which available for registered
users and decise to make next release free. But _officially_ it not yet
free.