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Jan 23, 2009View in Crawl 4
Holy crap the inaccuracy of this article is astounding. 1. Most any language you can use on a mac can be used in windows.(Except for Mac specific ones, like Cocoa and such)2. You can do it for free, Microsoft gives away express versions of Visual Studio, which is one language from VS, with a couple features removed, that don't even impact non-Pro users. 3. You can program in any windows compatible language WITHOUT visual studio, even .net languages. Microsoft provides a compiler for c++, and the .net languages for free, that is separate from VS. Or you can use any compiler provided with any other language implementation.
Right. Because there aren't free compilers out or open source languages on Windows. If you really want to take the open source route, why not talk about Linux?
alaskalonewolfJan 23, 2009
Amen.
jivemastaJan 23, 2009
Holy crap the inaccuracy of this article is astounding. 1. Most any language you can use on a mac can be used in windows.(Except for Mac specific ones, like Cocoa and such)2. You can do it for free, Microsoft gives away express versions of Visual Studio, which is one language from VS, with a couple features removed, that don't even impact non-Pro users. 3. You can program in any windows compatible language WITHOUT visual studio, even .net languages. Microsoft provides a compiler for c++, and the .net languages for free, that is separate from VS. Or you can use any compiler provided with any other language implementation.
liquidsparkJan 24, 2009
More like the sorry state of bloggers. This article was complete fanboy (or ignorant) crap.
shalbJan 24, 2009
Right. Because there aren't free compilers out or open source languages on Windows. If you really want to take the open source route, why not talk about Linux?
cfspornJan 26, 2009
I know that there are free compilers on windows, I am just saying that they arent bundeled in Microsoft's Visual Studio.
johnnysoftwareOct 19, 2009
Link to article is broken - HTTP error 404 kind of page came up.