Originally Posted by
jimblumberg
Actually they are both a little old to be considered good, and IMO, TurboC is so old the only thing it is good for is confusing newbies with outdated technologies that were designed for obsolete operating systems.
If by standard you mean C89, then yes, but it doesn't support the current C standards.
As long as you're talking about C++ it is a decent compiler, but it is severely lacking as far a C is concerned (but it is still better than either of your current choices).
There are several good compilers available for Windows each has a decent IDE available. Probably one of the best options would be Visual C++ (for C++).
Primarily I use gcc on Linux (I don't do Windows).