Re: Re: Synchronet BBS Compiling
  By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Dec 05 2019 02:41 pm

Ni> I thought Borland's compilers were fairly popular in the early 90s. I
Ni> remember them being fairly inexpensive, and I remember hearing a lot about
Ni> Borland Turbo C and Borland Turbo C++ for DOS.. Also I seem to remember
Ni> hearing that Borland's OWL GUI toolkit for C++ was at least somewhat
Ni> popular for a time in the early-mid 90s. 

Yes, and yes. Microsoft C was the professional choice, Borland Turbo Pascal and
C were geared to hobbyists and students.

Microsoft C didn't have an IDE back then, you needed to use a programmer's
editor like Brief, and they had hooks into the compiler - so they could open
the editor at the error encountered.

Turbo C and Quick C had built in editors/debuggers/&tc.

Turbo Pascal is still available; it's amazing how tiny the executable and
libraries are.

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