"with other popular FOSS compilers" The express edition is not FOSS. It is barely freeware.
It is just a windows-only market drug so that you remain coding stuff only for windows. If you like the idea of falling on those schemes, go ahead. Though never underestimate the real cost of these things, MS' bussiness model does not work by giving things for free, it is more of a 'it is free while you get dependent on it, you'll pay me later' way. It is of course a great product, but don't call it free. You at least need to pay for a windows license... Anyway, none of its features is really necessary for simple problem solving. Though I may be biased after accomplishing so much using only g++, valgrind and geany... At least until the semifinals stage, this combination did not cause me any problem. If I couldn't advance to the finals it was not due to limitations in my compiler/debugging environment but due to not thinking of a good solution to the problems. On Jul 17, 2:30 am, Z <[email protected]> wrote: > yeah, what's more, MS have got Anders Hejlsberg! And the Express > edition must be for the purpose of competing with other popular FOSS > compilers. > > On 7月17日, 上午11时01分, "Henrique 'HoloCoCos' Cintra" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Last year I used Visual Studio C++ 2003 Express. I could solve the exercices > > with this IDE, without any problem! > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Z <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > no one suggests Visual C++ 2008 Express? It can be freely downloaded > > > and used. > > > -- > > holoco...@tnthttp://holococos.sjdr.com.br > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
