>>7
You got that wrong, lol; you.fail();
>>1
- If you want something simple, then you might want to use an old Borland C/C++ with IDE for MS-DOS. Recommended to learn C.
- If you want to do it all by hand and in a portable way, you can use MinGW or Cygwin GCC for Windows and GCC for Linu. Get a good editor (Windows: UltraEdit (commercial), PSPad Pro (free) for example. Linux: Kate (free), for example. Sorry, few to no good text-mode editor exist for Win32 and Linux (if Anonymous knows of something, please post (refrain from suggesting vi or emacs))).
- If you want a command line compiler, but simpler, you can try LCC-win32.
- If you want a modern IDE to write serious applications and to learn, try Dev-C++.
- Finally, if you're in for commercial compilers, want an IDE, a horde of applications and wizards you need a book to learn to use, and best Win32 integration (easy bloatware writing too), try Visual C++ (Visual Studio). BTW, don't compile for .NET, pseudocode, managed code, or whatever they want to call it, that's pure bullshit, compile for real.