Re: C programmers (particularly those who use LCC32).

jim_breen_at_idontreadhotmail.com
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:16:23 GMT

Paul Blay <ranma@saotome.demon.co.uk> dixit:
><jim_breen@idontreadhotmail.com> wrote ...
>> Srin Tuar <SrinTuar@example.net> dixit:
>> >Hrm, thats fairly horrid, for a compiler to do, imo.
>>
>> I agree. An English-centric view; typical of programmers with limited
>> world experience.

>He's French. :-P

I meant the person who wrote the compiler that barfed on encountering
8-bit characters.

>Cygwin was fine 'n' dandy with a related project that had a prepared
>auto-configuring makefile system. It's much less user friendly
>when I have to sort that bit out myself.

It's great for porting Unix-style packages into the Windows world.
I impressed everyone, including myself, by getting a slab of
Tcl/Tk/C ported to run on Windows without too much drama (this was
in Japan in 2001). It needed the tcl.dll and tk.dll which were
about 1Mb each to run in environments without Tcl/Tk installed, but
it worked. 

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Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Computer Science & Software Engineering,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
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