Your First THINK C Program

Re:Your First THINK C Program by cxr on Saturday March 28, 2020 @11:40AM (#22711736)

And you really shouldn't expect otherwise.

One of these is gratis and libre, and the other isn't. If you want to stand on that side with Windows and expect other people to help you out, then what you're asking for is for them to shell out money and a lot of effort for you. Whereas the reverse is not true; in comparison, the picture of a Windows user having to get access to a FOSS toolchain for themselves looks trivial—and with the abundance of ready-made system images that you can spin up without even having to reboot your computer, it is.

"Windows user" is not an ADA-protected class.

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Re:Your First THINK C Program by skocznymroczny on Saturday March 28, 2020 @05:04PM (#22714320)

I don't expect Windows support for all projects, but I consider having to install the whole Unix toolchain on Windows equivalent to telling a Linux user that Linux is supported, just run it through Wine and it works.

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Re:Your First THINK C Program by cxr on Saturday March 28, 2020 @09:31PM (#22715638)

In that case, then boy, your criticism is really out of place. The entire article here is about running a classic Mac OS image so you can run a discontinued compiler.

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