Thread: WHY IS GCC NOT AS GOOD AS OLD TurboC??

actually wheni was introduced to turbo c i was told that it is very old but i though that it would be ok for the time being.....but now i have installed pelles c and code::blocks.....let me test which one is better as i would be taking the beginner's simulation course next semester

thank you for your kind guidance!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by suryap.kv1bbsr

actually wheni was introduced to turbo c i was told that it is very old but i though that it would be ok for the time being.....but now i have installed pelles c and code::blocks.....let me test which one is better as i would be taking the beginner's simulation course next semester

thank you for your kind guidance!!!!!!!

Ok, before you get all invested... take a close look at the IDE features of each.

If you plan doing anything but CLI programming, you're going to hit the wall pretty quickly with Code:Blocks. CB includes no support whatsoever for windows resource (*.res, *.rc) files. If you plan building windows GUI mode apps, you will need to find free standing resource editors for dialogs, string tables, manifests, accellerators, icons, bitmaps, etc. And good luck finding a free standing Message Table editor, I've never seen one.

PellesC has all this built right in.

The only reason to choose Code::Blocks over Pelles is if you are doing C++ programming (Pelles is strictly C-99) but even then you'll still have to come up with all that extra stuff from someplace...

I would recommend Pelles C for standard C programming... it's a beautiful IDE.
For C++ get the free version of Visual Studio from Microsoft.

IMO Code:Blocks is great for Linux but it massively sucks for Windows.

Originally Posted by CommonTater

Ok, before you get all invested... take a close look at the IDE features of each.

If you plan doing anything but CLI programming, you're going to hit the wall pretty quickly with Code:Blocks. CB includes no support whatsoever for windows resource (*.res, *.rc) files. If you plan building windows GUI mode apps, you will need to find free standing resource editors for dialogs, string tables, manifests, accellerators, icons, bitmaps, etc. And good luck finding a free standing Message Table editor, I've never seen one.

PellesC has all this built right in.

The only reason to choose Code::Blocks over Pelles is if you are doing C++ programming (Pelles is strictly C-99) but even then you'll still have to come up with all that extra stuff from someplace...

I would recommend Pelles C for standard C programming... it's a beautiful IDE.
For C++ get the free version of Visual Studio from Microsoft.

IMO Code:Blocks is great for Linux but it massively sucks for Windows.

Well i must tell u that i have installed pelles c over my windows partition which i seldom use,,but i am an active user of ubuntu linux,,,since i couldn't find pelles c version for linux,i installed code::blocks

I am a beginner learning C and i haven't started windows g programming yet...but i will start it in a month.The main use of C for me is for simulations, graph plotting, etc. after solving a good amount of equations.I do not use mathematica and matlab as they are much slow and it is painful to have full control over them.
My friend suggested that ROOT will come handy for simulations as it has both c/c++ compiler and a graph plotting tool in it.How is it?

Once again, thanks for your help!