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03 Mar 2010, 4:47 pm

any suggestions for a good development suite for writing all this C, C++ and Java?


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03 Mar 2010, 5:22 pm

[quote="solinoure"]any suggestions for a good development suite for writing all this C, C++ and Java?[/quote

Emacs.


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03 Mar 2010, 7:10 pm

Emacs is great if you don't mind a learning curve that looks like the side of a cliff, an unbelievable amount of swearing in addition to learning the language you're writing in, and you enjoy text mode and a potential lack of features that exist in a serious IDE.

Otherwise, if you use Linux, gcc is your compiler, I recommend SlickEdit.

If you use Windows, don't listen to the open source guys, fork out for Visual Studio 2008. I believe there's a free version these days.



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03 Mar 2010, 7:22 pm

So far I have downloaded:
Eclipse
Gambas2
KDevelop4

they all look very cool and Visual Studio like.


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03 Mar 2010, 7:27 pm

solinoure wrote:
any suggestions for a good development suite for writing all this C, C++ and Java?

gcc and teco.

Okay, just kidding about teco. However, I do find that vi is fine for learning on linux - or use whatever simple text editing program your version of linux comes with. Emacs is extremely powerful if you can afford to spend 8 hours a day at it to maintain your proficiency.

For Java, IDEA is far superior to Eclipse if you are willing to shell out money.



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03 Mar 2010, 7:47 pm

A GUI is the way to go, and the software he already found is just fine.



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03 Mar 2010, 7:57 pm

...and you can't beat the price.


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11 Jul 2010, 10:15 pm

What is the difference between C++ and C++ Visual Studio, I've notice on my schools computer that C++VS you just drag your objects on like VB6.


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11 Jul 2010, 10:32 pm

I prefer C over C++ just because I find in large projects C++ read. Not that I'm against it. I prefer low level work often, and I understand that C++ can do just as much as C and some, but I just feel more in-controll with just plain ol' C.

Everything changes of course if I'm doing a GUI application. In which case C becomes the crappiest language alive.

I generally stick with LLVM and GCC for my C based language stuff.



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12 Jul 2010, 1:18 am

Blake_be_cool wrote:
What is the difference between C++ and C++ Visual Studio, I've notice on my schools computer that C++VS you just drag your objects on like VB6.

Visual studio is an IDE. There is no important functional differences between Microsoft's C++ compiler and other C++ compilers, other than that Microsoft's compiler can also make .NET executables in addition to native code. Visual Studio does let you visually design interfaces for Windows Forms (.NET) or MFC if you want to use unmanaged code, and it will automatically create all the classes you need. You can still link with non-Microsoft libraries though like wxWidgets or QT.