Message-ID:	<3804038C.DA0D55D2@snetch.cpg.com.au>
Date:	Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:59:08 +1000
From:	Michael Abbott aka frEk <20014670 AT snetch DOT cpg DOT com DOT au>
Organization:	Student of Computer Power Institute
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Why not DJGPP?
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Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Heya

> > > DJGPP is AWESOME, but why is it that my school pays for WATCOMM C++,
> > > is it better?
> >
> > They probably don't know.  Tell them and save.
>
> At my school they use Borland C/C++, and my friend and I try to use DJGPP
> whenever we can. The reason my school wont use it is they would have to train
> the teachers with DJGPP, and that would cost more money that it would save.

The training wouldn't really be that hard would it? The kind of thing the school
would be teaching would be ANSI-C orientated right?

With Rhide / DJGPP set up, it'd take a couple of hours to feel confident about
programming in it (unless your teachers are like my old school teachers - Maths
teachers that somehow ended up teaching computers :)...

> They've also already bought the Borland C/C++ compiler and it works find for
> them, and they can't find a reason to trash it and throw away their investment.

Fare enough, Borland isn't that bad a compiler... I'd still work with DJGPP tho',
but if your school doesn't, why not ask them if you can use DJGPP instead of BC/++
to do projects, etc. ?

- Michael

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