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posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 01.03.2008, 00:42

> > It makes the life much easier, without DJGPP DOS would be dead now!
>
> You're a student, so you should have some faint idea what science is. So
> please provide some scientific evidence for your claims! I have some
> doubts, because I'm unable to see how DGPJJ has made *my* life easier. :-)
TDE, VIM, FED, FTE, VILE, GZIP, BZIP2, DOSFSCK, FreeBASIC, FreePascal, Ghostscript, Quake, LAME, NASM, NDISASM, JASSPA MicroEmacs, SBC, MAME, Doom Legacy, Ardi's Executor, YASM, UPX, XPDF, Dungeon Crawl, ADOM, NetHack, Perl, Python, Ruby, Unrar, p7zip, Info-ZIP's ZIP + UNZIP, LHA/Unix, LZOP, AdvanceComp, bash, GNU find, GNU tar, GNU sed, GNU awk, GNU grep, BIEW, DJTAR, etc. etc. etc.

> However, it doesn't matter what DGPJJ has "done" in the past. What's
> relevant is if it is *still* the best choice for a DOS compiler. IMO: No.
There's no doubt that HX + OpenWatcom is a formidable toolset. But I don't think GCC is outdated by any means (slightly better optimizations). Both have their uses, and both are free, so why not use both? :-D

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