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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ comparison (IDEs)
Message-ID: <8027@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 90 15:03:14 GMT
References: <2119@trlluna.trl.oz> <1990Aug24.181159.19680@cs.columbia.edu> <1990Aug29.161622.12404@persoft.com> <1990Aug29.204436.16590@cs.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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In article <1990Aug29.204436.16590@cs.columbia.edu> kearns@cs.columbia.edu (Steve Kearns) writes:
>In article <1990Aug29.161622.12404@persoft.com> eda@persoft.com (Ed Almasy) writes:
>>Yes, the IDE shipped with Turbo C++ is much better than that shipped
>>with Zortech C++, but is that what is important in a compiler?  
>
>yes, if you spend alot of time developing software.
>

There is another alternative. I spend a lot of time developing software and
don't use anyone's IDE. Why? Because every IDE is different, and it is too
much of a hastle to switch around. If I could get by with just one language,
then an IDE would be great. But I use 4 different C compilers (2 with IDEs),
Modula-2 (with an IDE, and another I don't use, with an IDE), 2 Fortran
compilers (no IDE), Forth (IDE), LISP (IDE), Pascal (IDE), and BASIC (IDE).

I use Epsilon and NDMAKE, and do just fine, thank you!

(It may seem bazarre, but I have far more trouble switching editors than I
do swiching programming languages!)

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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