andrew clarke wrote: > > I'd suggest you visit Apple's web site and follow the trail to their > developer tools. You probably already have them on CD but don't > know it > yet.
Good suggestion, seems to be ample information there. I must make myself more familiar with those pages. > Windows 9x/ME does not make for a stable development environment. If > you really want to use Windows for writing programs, I'd suggest > Windows > 2000 or XP. I really don't want to spend much money on my old machine, so maybe I'll concentrate on the Mac. Except I'd like to make something that I could share with my friends as well, of course. I've found Borland's free ver. 5.5 C++ compiler which will actually run under Windows 98, so I'm going to try it out. > Graphical programs written for Windows are generally not portable > to OS > X unless you use a third-party library such as wxWindows. Wow, didn't know about that. Seems almost too good to be true. > You may also want to look at the Python language. Python is installed > by default on all Macs running OS X. I found some info on that too on the Apple pages, and it looks promising, except that it's interpreted instead of compiled. That will slow it down a bit I guess. No good for astronomy computations (?) But it seems I don't have it on my machine. The only thing I find is a small Python library. Sean Brewer wrote: > If you really want a full blown UNIX environment without working too > hard, you can replace Win98 with FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org). > It's > not that hard to install, just download a CD image, burn it, and > install. You don't need new hardware to run it at all. I'm sending > this > e-mail with it (I'm running on a pentium II) *and* running X and a > decent window manager. > > On the other hand, you can run Cygwin, (http://www.cygwin.com). It > is a > linux-like (which is unix-like) environment for windows. You can do > pretty much all the things you can do on a UNIX system with it > (i.e. run > X, a C compiler,a shell..etc) Interesting suggestions too, thanks. Best greetings, LEF To unsubscribe, send a blank message to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/c-prog/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
