Date: Fri, 2 Sep 94 17:46:54 +0200
From: Emmanuel DOT Anne AT univ-caen DOT fr (Emmanuel Anne)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Use of djgpp

WU David S said :
 
> And the top 0xf reaons why I use DJGPP:
> 
> 0xf)  32 bit compilers: good.  
> 0xe)  16 bit compilers: bad.
> 0xd)  I like big ints.
> 0xc)  I like big arrays.
> 0xb)  Its free!
> 0xa)  The name D. J. Delorie reminds me of B. J. Birdie.  (Toronto joke.)
> 0x9)  You can get new releases via ftp.
> 0x8)  Makes you feel a little like you are a big, powerful UNIX user, when in
>     fact all that you have is a PC.
> 0x7)  It makes my code work a lot faster than Turbo C did.
> 0x6)  I like the name GNU.  (although I can't pronounce it.)
> 0x5)  They send me mail.
> 0x4) When you are confused, you can bother the author with your questions.
> 0x3) I don't have to worry about not owning QEMM or any other memory manager.
> 0x2) I don't have to worry about writing programs that work under Windows 3.1.
> 0x1) When I misuse pointers, my programs last longer than they did in TC.
> 0x0) There are at least a million command line options that I will never
>     know about.
> 
> 
> warniing, this list has been null-padded to make 16 reasons.

... and I could not say more !
djgpp is great !