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[etherial]

If I were to write a simple no-frills program in some variety of C, what compilers are available to someone who wants to spend no money on one?

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[londo.livejournal.com]

*shoots pezzonovante*

[greybar.livejournal.com]

So the question is what platform you want to use and how user-friendly you want the IDE to be. The two choices mentioned here split that nicely.

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Windows, since I've never tried debugging anything in text-based *nix.

[londo.livejournal.com]

What do you actually need to do in C?

[etherial.livejournal.com]

I need to write a program to figure out something I can probably figure out faster in my head. This is part of a job interview.

[jducoeur]

In that case, the question is whether the job is for a Visual Studio-based or .NET environment. If so, VC makes sense as a way to start familiarizing yourself with that world. If not, gcc is more standard and more typically useful...

[londo.livejournal.com]

I really can't endorse Microsoft Visual anything as a no-frills choice, though.

[nightskyre.livejournal.com]

The nice thing about the .Net IDE's is the ability to feel your way around the libraries thanks to Intellisense. For a non-programmer, that is really, really helpful.

I think c# might be a little more approachable to someone who doesn't know C, though.