From: "Thomas Harte" <T DOT Harte AT btinternet DOT com DOT KILL_PART>
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Subject: Re: The Future of DJGPP
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 00:39:53 +0100
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>Which is one reason I use MinGW rather than MSVC for compiling
>Windows apps (I also like RHIDE better than Visual Studio).


You obviously enjoy having the mouse cursor disabled every time you compile,
and being unable to work with more files than break the 127 characters
argument limit!

To be balanced though, us MSVC++ users clearly enjoy having to load IE just
to browse the help, loosing all the icon pictures if we try a DirectX
application on certain graphics cards, and indeed being completely unable to
step debug any full screen graphics application with only a single machine.

Although I quite like that it builds a list of all your function names and
class members and lets you jump to the right source file and line in a
single click . . .

-Thomas