On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:15 PM, AMIT KUMAR <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am a 4th sem CSE undergraduate . My college had been using the same old
> TC compiler for the past 2 semesters ,for many courses . Now when the 4th
> sem had started i want them to switch to some other environment (on Windows
> though) ,can somebody give a letter which i should give to my
> Deputy-Director/HOD ,stating disadvantages of the old TC .
>
TC has several disadvantages in my opinion:
1. the biggest one is we can't implement what we study ( in books) because
TC is a 1993 thing ("Baap ke Zamane ka IDE") and after that C++ standards
have changed a lot so books have changed, this causes confusion.
for example: we study namespaces in C++ just show your HOD that you can't
implement that concept with TC so it is useless.
there are a lot of issues like this.
2. In the early stages IDE should not be used to learn C++ because a lot of
things like linking object files etc. are not seen by students so the real
basics are missed.
3. Its proprietary
Replacing graphics.h
Since it is not a standard library it can't be implemented without TC so we
shouldn't use it we can use libraries like Allegro which is open source +
cross platform.
This has been implemented in other institutes too.
http://bit.ly/replaceTC
for allegro tuts go to
http://bit.ly/CPPallegro
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