Re: [Freedos-user] Interesting comment by Walter Bright

2022-01-30 Thread Ralf Quint
On 1/29/2022 8:37 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: He claims "The DMC++ compiler is far and away the best C++ compiler on DOS." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30127615 Well, he had a good head start on pretty much all the other major players, both as a commercial C, then C++ compiler, sold t

Re: [Freedos-user] Interesting comment by Walter Bright

2022-01-30 Thread Travis Siegel
I have built dmc++ from source, but it was for windows cli.  I haven't tried building a dos copy of the source.  Now that I'm settled in my new house, perhaps I can get one of my machines setup to handle dos (my other dos machine didn't make the move), and give it a shot. I know, an emulator w

Re: [Freedos-user] Interesting comment by Walter Bright

2022-01-30 Thread Travis Siegel
I actually have used that compiler, and while I didn't see anything to uphold the claim that it's the best, it certainly does hold it's own when it comes to size of executables, plus, if you buy a license, you can have the source, which is always nice. I've always been fascinated by compilers,