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In article <4jaho0$siu@solutions.solon.com>,
Robert Zieroth  <rzieroth@wctc.net> wrote:
>Gus Hart wrote:
> > I am going to do a series of small numerical problems in C or C++ to how
> > it works.  If I like C I am going to go to C in place of fortran.  I
> > would like to buy a very cheap, simple compiler for the PC.  Anyone know
> > where I might find one?  MY programming interest is only in computational
> > physics.  (dont need any fancy gui stuff)  Someone mentioned that 'Mix'
> > had a cheap compiler but I could find them on the WEB and I dont know how
> > to contact them.
> > Any help is appreciated,
> > Thanks
> > Gus Hart
> > UC Davis Physics Dept
>
>I learned C using Power C by MIX and was very hapy with it.   For doing 
>small projects it was great and had very fast compile times.

djgpp's very good, and I use it happily. Unfortunately, it's neither 
small nor simple. If you want something *really* simple, check a Simtel 
archive for pcc (personal c compiler). It's an ancient K&R C compiler for 
8086's. It'll compile to COM files only, so the object code length has to 
be less than 64kB. But it's fast. Incredibly so -- my 486DX66 doesn't 
even pause for breath compiling the demonstration programs. It's also 
only a couple of hundred kB.

Just as a matter of interest, one of the demonstration programs is a game 
of Caterpillar. I tried it out of interest. On my machine, it just went 
flick! and exited. It was going through all three lives in about a tenth 
of a second.

Machines *have* got faster, haven't they? :)


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