[Mingw-users] Re: New IDE for MinGW compiler and debugger

[Soren A <sor...@fa...>]

"John Kopplin" <j_k...@ho...> wrote around 11 Dec 2002
news:F13...@ho...:

> The MinGW community might be interested in a new
> port of the Gnu C++ compiler (g++.exe) and debugger
> (gdb.exe) to the Windows 95/98/ME and Windows NT4/2000/XP
> platforms.  I took the latest MinGW executables
> (unmodified save for Al Stevens's recent fix to GDB)
> and embedded them in a standard Windows look and feel.
> In fact, my integrated development environment looks
> like a stripped down version of Microsoft's Visual C++.
>
> This Windows program (cppide.exe) is a part of a computer
> science curriculum that teaches programming to beginners.
> The curriculum teaches 3 languages of graduated complexity,
> culminating in C++ (the second language is assembly language
> for the 8051 microprocessor and the introductory language
> is RPN for a programmable graphing calculator).

What, not Perl? <LOL>.

> More details are available at my web site:
> http://www.computersciencelab.com

Skimming now...

Ah, I see that you *do* cite Perl, in the apparently-famous "shoot
yourself in the foot" parable (p4):

 "With the Perl language, Perl will give you ten bullets and a laser
 scope and then stand by and cheer you on."

<G>. That's about right.

> I would like to thank all of the MinGW volunteers who have
> contributed to these great resources.

The spirit of "giving back." Tremendous.

As someone who writes "C" but isn't proficient in C++, I notice that the
.CHM files you are giving away for evaluation cover a considerable
amount of basic C++ principles in addition to explaining Windows
programming. This is good.

I do wonder about one statement:

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|  All the code in the Petzold book is in the C language, which was the  |
|  language that Microsoft's own engineers were using when they invented |
|  Windows.                                                              |
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The section above is found on page 27 of the CHM file.

My impression is that Pascal was the original "language of Windows". How
does Mr. Kopplin's statement jibe with that, anyone?

Anyway, glad to learn of this project. Good luck, hope you sell a whole
bunch of disks.

 Soren A

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