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From: joe@mdbs.UUCP (Joe Greer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo C questions
Message-ID: <408@mdbs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 09:57:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 28 09:57:36 1987
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In article <572@rlgvax.UUCP> cliff@rlgvax.UUCP (Cliff Joslyn) writes:
>I've been using TurboC productively now for a few weeks, and have just
>taken the opportunity to examine the interactive environment.  Perhaps I'm
>missing something, but I really can't see the utility of it, especially
>since the editor is single window/buffer.  Are projects any better than
>makefiles (the deficiencies of Turbo's make aside)?
>
>Can somebody reveal some advantage of tc over tcc and a good editor to me?
>

One of the biggest advantages is that you don't have to continually reload the
compiler and/or linker from disk.  This loading time doesn't seem very
significant, but if you have a project of 10+ files, the time added by this
starts to add up.  

Another nice thing about tc is the abilitiy to bring up the erroneous file
and place the cursor on the bad line with only one keystroke.  You can also
move to the next error/file or previous error with one keystroke.  I find
this extremly handy.

As for the editor, I never use it (except for one or two character changes).

When all is said and done, I would say that I preferred tc over tcc because
of the added convienence tc gives me.  Others will probably disagree, but 
since I have both, I can have my cake and eat it too.  I would not even
pretend to claim that tc is the answer to all problems, but for at least
smaller and less complicated projects I think its better than make/tcc.

					Joe Greer
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