Date:	Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:56:29 +0100 (CET)
From:	Wilmer van der Gaast <lintux AT dds DOT nl>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Is DJGPP really suitable for beginners?
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On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Phil wrote:

> I chose to try DJGPP because it stated on the homepage that it was
> suitable for beginners and seemed to be quite established, so I haven't
> looked at any other compilers yet. However, there seems to be an
> inordinate amount of 'exceptions' to previous standards, different tools
> and a lot of flexibility, which no doubt make it popular to experienced
> programmers but does tend to make it overcomplicated to the novice (or
> at least me, anyway). Does anyone know of a more basic, freeware
> compiler that I could try? Alternatively, can anyone tell me why I
> should persevere with DJGPP?
When I was seeing somebody doing some coding in C, in Borland C, I was
constantly thinking it was DJGPP; The IDE's are almost the same. A big
advantage of DJGPP is probably that your code can be ported to Unix-
environments easily, especially Linux. Of course if you use Allegro for
graphics, etc this is even easier. And the support is probably better
than most other products, this mailing list/newsgroup produces about
40/50 messages a day... Most other DOS/C environments are dead.
The biggest advantage of DJGPP is of course: It's free!
I don't know any other free DOS/C development environment.


Greetings,

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Wilmer van der Gaast (lintux AT dds DOT nl)
ICQ 55707076

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