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From: gleicher@duke.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Converting MicroSoft C to Turbo C
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Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 23:38:01 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 19 23:38:01 1987
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Summary: CodeView has merits, but I still like TurboC

As a user of MSC 4.0, and a recent purchaser of Turbo C, I have to
admit, I doubt I'll run MSC too much any more. True CodeView is nice,
but being able to compile in a reasonable time (My hard disk is slow
so the improvement is more than 4X for the program I'm working on). 
is worth more than the debugger.

What I'd really love to see would be DBX on a PC (with a better user
interface). Codeview is a little clunky at viewing complex datatypes.
quite honestly, I don't think I'd pay $300 for it (the price of MSC).
Especially because the one time I really needed it, it wouldn't work
because there wasn't enough memory. 


I would think it would be possible to find a way of using TurboC with
Codeview (or some such debugger). TurboC will put line numbers into
the code. I haven't experimented with it. (any comments?)

TurboC is such an excellent product and such a value that I'm sure
that it will sell well, and the huge demand for a good source level
dubugger will be met by someone enterprising.

One other note, Turbo C is so fast, that I include C++ style
declarations for all my functions in my headers, which drastically
reduces the number of stupid mistakes in my program. It's other neat
little checkers do the same. The place where I found CodeView most
useful (why is that variable becoming zero at the head of the for
loop :-).


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