Re: What's up with Linux C/C++ programming?

[Fernando Salas <fsalas@fibertel.com.ar>]

KDE now has a Visual like develop enviroment ; I didn't really used it yet
though, but the look ansd feel is really the same

Hal Daume III wrote:

> I'm probably going to get flamed for this, but oh, well.
>
> I think Linux is a horrible development OS.  Many many many people
> disagree with me.  I have nothing against the OS, there simply aren't
> any good tools.  I honesstly donn't know how anyone gets anything done
> with Emacs and GDB (or even DDD or the like).  Visual C (for however
> much you dislike microsoft) is a wonderful tool and makes development on
> the windows platform infinitely more appealing.  I can figure out a bug
> in a win based program in about 100th the time it would take me using
> GDB or DDD (for those of you who don't know, those are the standard gnu
> debuggers).
>
> If any one has had other experiences (and possibly know of a decent
> development tool for linux) i'd love to hear.
>
>  - Hal
>
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Matt Campbell wrote:
>
> > Hey all :)  I have some questions about what happens
> > with Linux.  If anyone in here uses Linux, maybe they
> > could tell me.  I read in some magazine a story on
> > Linux, and the prospect of a free (programming based)
> > OS with open source and free software was very
> > appealing to me.  Now, i have been to www.linux.com in
> > search of answers, and have come up with nothing that
> > i didn't get from the story i read.  The funny thing
> > is my dad still doesn't think i know what i'm talking
> > about.  He came in while i was surfing for info and
> > said "Don't do anything stupid.  Linux is another
> > operating system."  lol.  like i hadn't figured that
> > out already.  but, back to my story, I am currently
> > learning game programming in C/C++ from 'Tricks of the
> > Windows Game Programming Gurus' (by Andre Lamoth) and,
> > as you can guess, my predicament lays there in.  I
> > would be absolutely lost (even more lost than I am
> > already <lol>) if i switched to Linux.  How does
> > programming in C/C++ differ on windows than it does on
> > linux?  it's quite confusing.  I'll probably neer
> > switch (in the near future, anyway) because all my
> > hard earned software (games, ect.) won't work, but
> > hey.  It's sorta interesting.  anyone who knows
> > anything about Linux programming in C/C++ maybe drop a line.
> >
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> Hal Daume III                                        hal@cmu.edu
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