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posted by Japheth Homepage, Germany (South), 02.03.2008, 08:34
(edited by Japheth on 02.03.2008, 08:53)

> DJGPP made my "life" easier indeed.
Thanks for telling us!

> Why is this question relevant?
A "why" question is always dangerous. Usually I don't reply to such a question, because I think people should use their brain and analyze things for themselves, but since you're the admin I will make an exception and explain it for you:

First, I - slightly "by the way" - claimed that OW is superior to DGPJJ and supplied 4 arguments as backup:

- OW makes smaller binaries
- debugger is better
- memory model is better
- speed isn't better, but this isn't too important on modern cpus

all 4 arguments are about attributes of OW itself and they can be "verified"/"falsified".

Now, flox decided to stand up and defend DPGJJ by also bringing 4 arguments on the table:

- tools can be easily ported from Loonix
- gcc is under heavy development
- it makes life easier
- without DGPJJ DOS would be dead

This reply changes the topic of this branch of this thread to "OW vs DGPJJ" and therefore your "why" question is invalid.

But to summarize, in my reply to flox, I expressed my doubts about the quality of some of his arguments. IMO it is a rather hybrid set and some aren't acceptable (or, in other words, "irrelevant") when it comes to the question whether current DGPJJ is inferior to current OW or not! IMO arguments 2,3 and 4 are such "irrelevant" ones, because they are just opinions, "historical" and/or no attribute of DGPJJ - in short, they are not scientific.

> Let me just say: "Choose the right tool for the right job."
Thanks for your hint, but this is really off-topic. As already mentioned, this branch of this thread is about "OW vs DGPJJ"! I know, you regard this "question" as irrelevant, but then just ignore this branch.

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