in reply to Microsoft releases the MSVC commandline tools

For me, this comes about 15 years too late. I would have killed for a free C compiler back when I was playing around with DOS 5.0.

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Re: Re: Microsoft releases the MSVC commandline tools
by talexb (Chancellor) on Apr 19, 2004 at 19:02 UTC

    In 1987 you could get Borland's Turbo C for about $90 Canadian -- it included a full IDE for C development, full screen editor (OK, with WordStar commands, whatever), compiler, linker and make utility. It was $90 Canadian, and on my Dad's XT it ran like lightning -- you didn't like Borland products maybe?

    Alex / talexb / Toronto

    Life is short: get busy!

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      I was 5 years old in 1987 and I only started programming at 6 or 7 (and that on an Apple //c). For obvious reasons, I didn't have whatever amount of money Borland cost in the States, and my parents were too cheep to get it for me (along with the Power Wheels and Nintendo I wanted).

      To make up for it, I have GCC now, and have two orginal Nintendos and a real car. So I guess it all evens out in the end.

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