Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.dal.ca!aucs!880716a
From: 880716a@aucs.uucp (Dave Astels)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Which C compiler ?
Message-ID: <1990Jul10.125819.18573@aucs.uucp>
Date: 10 Jul 90 12:58:19 GMT
References: <2622@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: 880716a@aucs.UUCP (Dave Astels)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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In article <2622@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> barthe@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Olivier Barthelemy) writes:
>I am looking for a good C compiler, among the mainstream ones : Quick C,
>Turbo C or Turbo C ++. Can anyone advise me on which to buy, or direct
>me to benchmarks.

By all means get a C++ system.  I haven't used TC++ (note: no space) but the
environment looks good.  The profiler sound promising too.  Allas no Windows
support.  I have Zortech C++.  I've only used it for a few months, but it
seems great.  I am eagerly awaiting my upgrade to version 2.1, which promises
to be even better.  The debugger is wonderful, and there is a C compiler
thrown in (common optimiser & back end for both C & C++).  The optimiser
looks to be very capable.  I comes with the standard ANSI C library, as well
as some extras (EMM support, both as library routines and a special pointer
type; MS mouse support functions; a set of curses-like functions; and a fairly
complete graphics library).  I was dissappointed with the editor/environment
in version 2.0, but 2.1 is supposed to greatly improve this.  All the
pieces works from the command line as well, so I generally use uEmacs to
edit.

>I want to use C to write small file manipulation utilities 
> (stripping/changing control codes...),

Why not use SED or AWK (there are MS-DOS versions, including ones from the
GNU project)

>and for educational purposes. I know that C++ has objects,  
>and I have a vague idea of what objects are. Is it worth the extra cost, the
>few bugs, and the slower performance of TC++ compared to TC 2.0 ?

The extra cost should be insignificant.
Everything has bugs.  Note that Zortech's product has been around for a while.
C++ isn't much slower that C (if any, depending on the code).

>Do these compiler come with good libraries ? 

As I said above, Zortech comes with a fairly complete library.

>Is anyone better for Windows programming ?

Zortech supports Windows development.

>Thanks for your help

No problem.



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