Re: Which compiler for a learner of C?
- From: Mark McIntyre <markmcintyre@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:01:24 +0100
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:29:28 +0200, in comp.lang.c , Michael Mair
<Michael.Mair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Richard Heathfield wrote:
pkirk25 said:
I own a legit copy of Visual C++ 6.0
Its nice but it is 10 years old and aimed at C++.
It still does C just fine, though. It's a very good C compiler with a fine
IDE. In fact, on the rare occasions when I use Windows, it's my C compiler
of choice. (And I'm Mr Anti-Microsoft!)
Hmmm, that may be true for small to middle projects.
However, the fact that some of the standard headers lead to warnings,
that you cannot rely on the optimisation to produce the same programme
behaviour as unoptimised code, and that it cannot compile and link
projects of a certain size in Debug mode make it a beginners' tool in
my eyes.
Euh, you might want to point that out to the many major international
companies who used it extensively in its time.
For what its worth I dispute all three of your findings too (two of
them entirely, and one somewhat), but heck, this isn't a Microsoft
advocacy group, nor yet one discussing MSVC so...
--
Mark McIntyre
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan
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