Moving Ahead from Turbo C

Ankur Sethi has done a brilliant blog post on the differences between compiler, C++, Turbo C, IDE (and if you are sane enough to be interested) GCC and Dev C++. Ankur has explained all of it very clearly, so I won’t reinvent the wheel. I strongly recommend that you go through his post.

A couple of weeks back, I was talking with my Programming Fundamentals teacher here at VIT about the possibility of completely migrating to Dev C++ at least or dump our Windows 2000 systems in favor of Red Hat/Open Suse running GCC. This will really help in fostering a climate of open-source in the college. For God’s sake, Turbo C was developed in 1992 and is completely out of sync with the new standards of C/C++. Other schools might need to use some proprietary software but computing sciences can surely take the first step.

April 25, 2009 – 10:13 pm | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Hacking | Tagged , , | Comments (5)
  • Akhil Bhiwal

    Even I feel the same. Working on turbo C is a complete disaster, where you dont even come to know when your array overflows or when you start pointing to some segment which is not in your program.
    The worst part if you start working on dev C++ in exam, teacher tells you that switch back to turbo C.

  • Rohit Mishra

    Turbo C is a good piece of software which has served its purpose. Although Dev C++ is a good IDE, I think there is a scope of a more simpler version of GCC based C/C++ IDE for Windows. Dev C++ is not being updated. What it really needs is at least the help file which is a big boon for the beginners when they start with Turbo C. You know of any other good GCC based IDE for Windows?

  • Akhil Bhiwal

    Visual studio(not being biased) and netbeans are two really good IDE on windows.
    Netbeans uses GCC as the compiler and is a wonderful IDE. Visual studio has its own compiler.

  • Random

    There is no such thing as ‘C/C++’, before you rant on others, educate yourself better.

  • http://rohit-mishra.blogspot.com/ movingahead

    Ever seen ‘/’ being used in place of ‘or’. Will be better if you have the guts to use your real identity instead of hiding behind an anonymous identity,
    Anyways, thanks for reminding me of this post.