"Dev-C++ is useful for newish programmers who still use "using namespace std;" and the like. It is also clean, free of bloat and uses MinGW to compile."
What's wrong with "using namespace *" you may ask.
Well, if you are going to use it for all the namespaces you use, you may as well use C. (which is not that bad)
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"Using" is a convenience feature that is supposed to do exactly that. If you use the using statement, it is assumed that you understand what you are doing.
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Anonymous2008-03-07 20:03
[quote]What's wrong with 'using namespace std;'?[/quote]
It's unscientific and ultimately destructive.