Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:56:29 +0100 (CET) From: Wilmer van der Gaast To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Is DJGPP really suitable for beginners? In-Reply-To: <386BE01B.858A1910@address.in.message.body> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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, --------- Wilmer van der Gaast (lintux AT dds DOT nl) ICQ 55707076