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Originally posted by blackrat364
Anyway, .NET is (imho) Microsoft's most recent attempt to take over the language. It requires a bunch of "strange" things. I'd get a copy of MSVC 6 Standard if you could. The only problem with that is that it's a few years old now :(
Get .NET 2003. It's essentially VC++ 7.1, which is the single most ANSI-standard compiler out there -- it's actually older versions of VC which "require strange things", because older versions have horrible standards compliance.