Re: Learning C++
In article <87wrzlhpif.fsf@gmail.com>, Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> wrote:
Brian Wood <woodbrian77@gmail.com> writes:
Gcc isn't much to write home about.
As a sentence, that's almost entirely devoid of meaning. And yet it is
still, somehow antagonistic, and offered without any sort of evidence or
reasoning behind it.
No wonder you love that Nanci Pelosi piece so much. Two peas in a pod.
(Although yours was both briefer and better written).
Well, the "problem" with GCC is not really a problem with compiler
as such. The compiler is good enough and I trust the brand to be in
top slots for whatever parameters.
The "problem" with it is that it is not an IDE.
Compiler is just a compiler.
But what we work is not a compiler.
We work with IDE, the whole works.
Debugging, editing, and code completion specifically
and the rest of it.
I wish the Netbeans and Eclipse would learn the code completion
and screen space utilization from Visual Studio.
As far as I know, the code completion is simply horrible.
Screen utilization is simply sloppy.
And it all has been solved in visual studio.
And THAT is the standard. We can't go lower than that any longer.
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