C++ Music(not mine)

[LooseCaboose]

Hey guys, a bunch of college students wanted to know if you can play music using TurboC++?

Err, why are college students using TurboC++. I hope this isn't course work, otherwise they really need to upgrade their compiler.

[L_O_J]

well compiler standard in South East Asia is mostly lower than in ther Europe / US, but i think it's not the Compiler that matter it's the language itself. if you just wanna learn printf,etc using TurboC++ or VC++ make no difference. :???:

[na_th_an]

Well, refer to what I said. I learned C using Borland C and that was not positive. When I steped up to GCC derivatives I had to change my mind and stop doing lots of "bad coding" that was completely correct in Borland C. IMHO, Borland C can come handy many times (specially 'cause it produces great 16 bits code) but shouldn't be used to learn.

[Antoni Gual]

Nathan:
What do you think about Open Watcom C?

[TheBigBasicQ]

well compiler standard in South East Asia is mostly lower than in ther Europe / US, but i think it's not the Compiler that matter it's the language itself. if you just wanna learn printf,etc using TurboC++ or VC++ make no difference. :???:

Umm...turbo C++ is able to compile many times faster than its windows and linux counterparts. And yes, if you want to learn basics, TurboC++ is very good. I mean the online help, IDE etc...

[na_th_an]

Nathan:
What do you think about Open Watcom C?

Sincerely, I never tried it. I remember the hype with Watcom C some time ago, but I was on the GCC (DJGPP) side. Have you tried it?

[Antoni Gual]

EDITED:
Yes, I'm currently using it. But I' m only a newbie in C

Pro:
It's free
It's the only one able to compile both 32 and 16 bits: Windows, DOS, OS-DOS and Novell netware.
It comes with 3 extenders for DOS: Dos4gw, pharLap and I forgot the name of the third one..
Graph library for DOS
"Win 16 extender" included???
It comes with a complete set of tools: profiler, debugger (able to do remote debugging) resource editor, icon editor, class browser....
It does fast code,
Does not use hidden runtimes as mingw or MSVC.
Good docs for the apps, C language, C library, C++ library.
Can compile MSVC samples without any change.

Against:
The C is older than C99 standard.
Could do Linux also..
The C++ library is not standard at all. You need to get an external STL.
No docs for C++ language, only documents the C++ library.
The IDE sucks.

[relsoft]

Any good paperback book regarding beginning C?

Coding is somewhat "illegal" for me these days. So I need to learn thorough paper. :*)

Nath: these students use the BGI as their teacher required them. :*(

[Antoni Gual]

I have Kernighan & Ritchie in HTML. You could print it...

[TheBigBasicQ]

Is it uploaded?