Subj : Re: bcc 5.02 command line v. ide
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Greg Chicares
Date : Wed Dec 08 2004 09:36 pm

On 2004-12-08 8:16 PM, David Morris wrote:
 >
 > Basically, I want to use hand coded make
 > files, an editor/IDE, and command line
 > compilers, linkers and the rest.  A sort
 > of time warp into the late 80's or
 > early 90's.   This will give me the freedom
 > to use whatever language I desire

A time warp back...or a freedom warp forward.

   http://fsf.org.in/philosophy/purpose.html
"In the early days of computing, it was customary for programmers
to share software. Since the 1970s, however, software has become
proprietary, and users have been prevented from sharing, let
alone modifying, programs."

Years ago I gave up the "convenience" of IDEs for the freedom of
makefiles and command-line tools. I've never looked back. I've
posted hundreds of articles in borland.public.cpp.ide over the
years, so I know the paradigm and didn't start out with any
prejudice against it.

 > freedom to use whatever language I desire
 > for whatever application (I also now seem
 > to do a lot of HTML and PHP for
 > example), while still retaining a familiar
 > development environment.

I guess you'd be best served either by an infinitely customizable
editor+environment (you might try emacs), or by any random editor
plus a collection of command-line tools. I just use gnu make, zsh,
and the typical *nix utilities ported to msw. I wrote wrappers for
borland tools so that I can invoke them in makefiles with the same
syntax as gcc.

On 2004-12-08 8:29 PM, David Morris wrote:
> 
> [...] My problem with it without looking is that
> it is shareware.   This is going to sound odd, but I feel
> much safer with freeware than shareware.

Assuming your definition of "freeware" is like
   http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
or
   http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php
that doesn't sound odd at all.

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