John Wilson wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 02:13:08PM -0400, Carlos Murillo-Sanchez wrote:
> > I still use Watcom C R11, which has the added advantage
> > that is more "unix-like". Too bad Watcom (a superior product) flopped
> > and all developers were forced to use VS C .
> -snip-
> There's a rumor floating around the OS/2 PDD mailing list, that Watcom C
> may be on the verge of being released as open source. That would sure
> suit me fine, since my only complaint about the package is an annoying
> linker bug which ought to be easy to fix, with source. And the ability to
> produce executables for bletcherous GUI OSes w/o leaving the comfort of a
> DOS development machine, is a pretty neat feature!
For me, what I liked was that I could import most of my unix
stuff verbatim to a pc, type "wmake" and more often than not end up
with an executable. I don't use the IDE at all. I also liked the fact
that I could easily create DLL's to be called by MATLAB (I do most of my
"serious" work in a combined MATLAB/FORTRAN/C environment, under HPUX,
Solaris and winblows).
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Carlos Murillo-Sanchez email: cem14_at_cornell.edu
428 Phillips Hall, Electrical Engineering Department
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Received on Fri Apr 07 2000 - 12:45:16 BST