From: dscott AT networkusa DOT net (SCOTT19U.ZIP_GUY)
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Subject: Re: Why not DJGPP?
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 04:31:26 GMT
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In article <99120616050801 DOT 24967 AT sparky DOT lineo DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com wrote:
>On Sat, 04 Dec 1999, you wrote:
>> WOW!!! You learn C at school. Just comes to show how BEHIND
>> south africa really is. We still do that ol' boring PASCAL
>> stuff. It really erretates me because I'm so accustomed to
>> working with C (I use DJGPP by the way) and always make
>> errors at school.
>
>Glad I don't live in south africa. :)
> 
>> eg  C/C++         PASCAL
>> IF ( a==b )   IF a=b
>> 
>> sux doesn't it.
>
>Yep. It does. I learned C before I entered High School, but they wouldn't let
>me take a C/C++ class because it was the most advanced class in the school, and
>it wasn't totally a class yet... it didn't have a set curriculum and they just
>threw it in with the Pascal class. (so there was a C++ class and pascal class
>in the same room with one teacher.) It didn't become a real class until last
> year, 
>when the computer science AP test was written in C/C++. (And we have the best
>computer science department in the district.)
>
>> to reply: DJGPP is an excelent (did someone mention FREE)
>> compiler and I had no real trouble (apart from my stupid
>> errors) with it.
>
>I agree... I prefer it to Borland and Watcom. It has been faster and has had
>way better support, (via this list and a few other resources).
>

   It seems that Borland and Watcom lack a lot of utility. People have tried
to get my code for my encryption to run on other compliers. But maybe becasue
of the overlay structures they fail to run correctly. Just try to get 
scott19u.c to work under one of those other compliers.



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