[OT] Visual C++ question

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 20:07:09 -0500
Alex Pennace <alex at pennace.org> wrote:

> It depends largely on the preference of the professor. For a few
> semesters, when another professor took over for the normal Computing I
> professor, he had everyone use Visual C++, and submit the full
> workspace on a floppy disk. When the normal professor started teaching
> the course again, it was back to using gcc on the Tru64.
That is true. I teach the C Programming Language and do not dictate the
tool. A good C program should compile and run on GCC on Linux, Unix,
Cygwin or on Windows as a console app compiled under Visual C++. The
assembler we built for Windows NT was developed under the Digital Unix C
compiler which was installed on bith Digital Unix (eg Tru64) and Windows
NT until Visual C++ was working on the Alpha. There were very few cases
where we needed compiler specific ifdefs. 

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