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Oh yeah, command line C++! :D

C:\C++>bcc32 hello.cpp
Borland C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993, 2000 Borland
hello.cpp:
Turbo Incremental Link 5.00 Copyright (c) 1997, 2000 Borland

C:\C++>hello
Hello, World!
C:\C++>

It sounds stupid, but I'm really proud to have got this up and running! I'm going back to how it was fifteen years ago, perhaps further to before I was born! :laugh: Get the tissues out, old timers. ;) It's completely free and without any of the bloat we've become accustomed to with modern IDEs. Pure C++. :yes:

Are there any other people still doing it the good old fasioned way?

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Just out of interest... Why is the "old fashioned" way, not using an IDE, good?

I am more than happy to work within the vs.net 2003 IDE, and find it very good, what's the benefit of command line compiling?

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I didn't say it was better..there's no real reason for using the command line tools, it just _feels_ so much better to me. It's stripping away the bark that I don't need (yet).

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Got XP. It's Run > cmd.

I know that! :blink:

Are you talking about DOS?

I use DOS all the time (only then Window says you can't delete that empty file or folder)

I said I use it too :blink:

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Oh yeah, command line C++! :D
C:\C++>bcc32 hello.cpp
Borland C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993, 2000 Borland
hello.cpp:
Turbo Incremental Link 5.00 Copyright (c) 1997, 2000 Borland

C:\C++>hello
Hello, World!
C:\C++>

It sounds stupid, but I'm really proud to have got this up and running! I'm going back to how it was fifteen years ago, perhaps further to before I was born! :laugh: Get the tissues out, old timers. ;) It's completely free and without any of the bloat we've become accustomed to with modern IDEs. Pure C++. :yes:

Are there any other people still doing it the good old fasioned way?

Actually it was that way after you were born too. IDE's aren't all that old really, they've just recently really started to take off (last few years). Were there really even IDE's in the 80's/early 90's (maybe an older programmer can answer)? If there were, they weren't that great, at least by today's standards. I still do it the good old way too, mostly because I find IDE's get in my way.

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Well u can always use command line still...

If you like command line (or are running a batch) you can compile .NET apps using the command line .NET compilers...

No need to change anything as most IDE interface with a command line compiler anyway for these reasons (as VS .NET interfaces with the Command line .NET compilers).

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Anyone programming on linux has been doing it this way their whole life :)

vi + gcc is all you need :)

True, gcc is also available for windows users.

Todays projects become more and more advanced and cannot be easily done just by using commandline, that's where IDE comes into place... It allows user easy overview, debug, syntax highlighting... for easier development. There's no need anymore to "code in the shell" though DOS does not exist anymore.

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Well u can always use command line still...

If you like command line (or are running a batch) you can compile .NET apps using the command line .NET compilers...

No need to change anything as most IDE interface with a command line compiler anyway for these reasons (as VS .NET interfaces with the Command line .NET compilers).

Does it? I thought the command line compilers interfaced with the part of the .NET framework that compiles.

I mean, I can compile C# code from within a program, haven't found a way to do it for vb.net though :no:

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Nope. VS.NET 2003 compiles both C# and VB.NET fine when I stole the command line compilers from the v1.1.4322 directory.

I'm pretty sure cscompmgd.dll's 'Managed C# Compiler' does the work :D

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I'm hybrid. I code my stuff in an IDE for all the fancy Intellisense and syntax highlighting, but also write my own MSBuild files and compile and run the stuff from the console.

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