Re: Translating Euphoria Apps -- Which compiler do you use?
- Posted by kenneth Aug 14, 2008
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I currently use OpenWatcom for Windows apps, and don't do DOS or Nix apps. I would use MinGW instead, if someone would make a library for it. MinGW is my favorite compiler when programming in C as is the associated GFortran compiler when programming in FORTRAN. OpenWatcom has blue ribbon roots - I used WatFor (Univ. of Waterloo Fortran) as my first compiler for doing serious work. But the Open community's C compiler development is proceeding at a snail's pace, perhaps because the developers are infatuated with C and their IDE. MinGW keeps up fairly well with the C standards.
A perhaps controversial corollary question is, "How important is the capability to do DOS apps?" Backward compatibility is a sea anchor. Isn't it time to label DOS app interpretation and compilation "obsolescent"?
