If you want to use Borland you should look at VIDE.  It is a free IDE that
works with Borland and GNU.  It is not a bad effort.  I have used it a
number of times for a small amount of programming in C.

Downloading the Borland Docs takes some time but it is well worth the
effort.

Regards,

Gordon Williams

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Ammerman" <rammerman@ADELPHIA.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: [EE]: Learning C


> Borland offers a command-line-only version (no IDE) of their compiler for
> $0 - generally a good price.
>
> This is a high quality 32-bit compiler.
>
> Bob Ammerman
> RAm Systems
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Olin Lathrop" <olin_piclist@EMBEDINC.COM>
> To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 3:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [EE]: Learning C
>
>
> > > Well, I've finally seen the writing on the wall and decided it would
be
> a
> > > good idea to add C to my programming skills. I've been programming in
> > > assembly for a while but don't have much experience with higher level
> > > languages, except for a single class in C in college around 11 years
> ago.
> > >
> > > I don't want to be tied to a specific processor based compiler so I
> > thought
> > > it might be best to start with a "full-blown" ANSI C compiler. I am
> > totally
> > > lost on which compiler, platform, etc to use.
> >
> > I would get the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler.  Despite its name, it can
> > also do plain C.  The Microsoft documentation is very readable, and is
> > generally careful to point out what is a Microsoft extension and what is
> > "standard" C.  It is also a heavily used compiler, so other people have
> > already found most of the bugs.  They used to sell a "learning edition"
> for
> > a lower price.  I don't know what flavors it comes in today.
> >
> >
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