Re: Translating Euphoria Apps -- Which compiler do you use?
- Posted by jeremy (admin) Aug 15, 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.
The problem with it on windows is it's about 30% slower than Watcom or MSVC 
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"?
That's the best description I've heard yet of it! That sum's it up nicely. I'm not shy about my desire to loose DOS support, but other devs think it's still worth while, so for now I guess we will have it. I don't think any, many a tiny amount, of DOS development is going on these days so my desire would have been that 4.0 removes DOS support. If you want to do DOS dev, you can keep a copy of 3.1 around. Anyway, that's another thread 
Jeremy
