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Re: Any interest?
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2003 Dec 1, 10:58 -0800
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2003 Dec 1, 10:58 -0800
On Sunday, November 30, 2003, at 07:37 PM, Gordon Talge wrote: >> I used Microsoft c++ version 6.0. > > Sounds good, but you need to dump Microsoft take up GNU/Linux. > Try out the gcc and g++ complier collection all for free. > > http://www.gnu.org and http://www.debian.org I use both compilers a lot. I run FreeBSD and Mac OS X and use GCC there exclusively. I build each new release of GCC from source code and I have made changes to GCC. Having said that, sure the GCC tools are free, but they do not generate as good of code as Visual C++ does! In fact I just completed a comparison of VC6 and GCC 3.3.2 on Windows XP and VC6 still generates better code, and VC6 is from 1998! If he has bought VC6, then he should enjoy it. For those that want to use GCC on Windows, the simplest way to get it is via the Cygnus tools. Check out http://www.cygwin.com/ for more on free Unix tools for Windows users. I actually write more navigation software using Awk and Perl these days. Dan