From: pungo AT mindspring DOT com (Bob Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,rec.games.programmer
Subject: Re: DJGPP vs. Others -- Enough Already!
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 07:31:54 GMT
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firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org> wrote:

>This has gone on more than long enough.
>
>Your favorite C compiler is like your favorite language or your favorite
>Linux distribution; everyone has a religious opinion on it, which they
>will argue to the death (with incorrect information, if need be) and never
>give up on.
>
>I would like to emphasize one point: -There is no such thing as the
>universally best compiler.-  Some might prefer MSVC for Reason Foo, others
>DJGPP for Reason Bar, others Watcom for Reason Xyzzy. There is no One
>True Compiler that will do everything that everyone wants, and no
>optimizer is perfect. Use what works for you and leave others their 
>otherness, please.
>
>Or, can I suggest 'newgroup alt.flame.my.compiler.is.better.than.yours' if you
>insist on continuing this pointlessness? Jeez, I haven't seen so much flamage 
>and name-calling since Mr. Nudds was around.

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