Re:DigitalMars C/C++ Compiler
by wildmusings on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @09:35PM
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I just want to thank you for all your work on this. DMC is the very first C compiler I ever used, back in the early/mid 2000s. It was my first real foray into programming, and I was running Windows XP. I remember liking that DMC was free and no-BS. Unlike some of the competition (at least as far as 11-year-old me understood), it didn’t want me to install a whole IDE or other craziness along with it. Good to see that the project is still going.
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Re:DigitalMars C/C++ Compiler
by WalterBright on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @09:40PM
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Thanks for the kind words! I'm auld skool in that I like command line tools, and DMC++ reflects that in not requiring an IDE. The actual compiler and libraries are pretty small.
Back in the aulden days, it could also be run directly from the distribution CD without requiring an install. These days the "install" is merely unzipping the file.
Re:DigitalMars C/C++ Compiler
by TallGuyShort on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @10:38PM
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Same here! 11 year old me got Turbo C++ as a birthday gift. Once I learned the language, I was frustrated at how Microsoft and Borland and everyone tried to lock you into their ecosystem. MinGW was an option but Digital Mars was the bee's knees. A big stepping stone to my eventual career.
Re:DigitalMars C/C++ Compiler
by WalterBright on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @04:44AM
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Nice! I didn't get any access to a computer till I was 16. I had to punch cards and hand them to the teacher who'd run them as batch jobs. In college all students had accounts on the college PDP-10, a marvelous machine for its day.