Re: Re: Synchronet BBS Compiling
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Thu Dec 05 2019 05:31 pm

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

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

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

Ah, interesting.  I didn't use the software development tools much back then,
but I heard about some of them.

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

Interesting..  I thought Borland's Turbo Pascal morphed into Delphi?  Or
perhaps that's something different?

Nightfox

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