Re: [Dev-C++] Opinion about IDE Develpment Tools for EE

André Macário Barros napsal(a):
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>    I present to you this scenario because of the following:
> In the early 80´s, the old 2-diskettes Turbo C was used in
> EE to develop a lot of systems. BCC (Borland C++) v5&6 provides

Do you mean Borland C++ Builder 5 & 6 ? Borland C++ was name for a 
completely different product.

> a way to the EE student to develop systems without the formal
> need to work in OO. I think most of this is devoted to the
> Component Based Programming style. Inside each one of the functions
> the ANSI-C is used. Minimal VCL (Virtual Component Library) is
> used (example: fscanf vs LoadFromFile). Not only in this EE course
> but in a lot of others, I found this technical behavior (to
> prefer the BCC tool). But BCC is stopped and it is necessary to
> migrate to another IDE and, perhaps another way of discipline
> structuring.

What do you mean stopped? C++ Builder has new version nearly each year, 
latest to be found at: http://www.codegear.com/products/cppbuilder

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>    I know you guys like to talk a lot more than Dev-Cpp here
> and, if you are interested to talk about this, here are my
> questions:
>    a) In the showed scenario how would you struct the
>       4-year disciplines?

If I haven't to stick with ANSI-C, I would probably go with .Net/C#, but 
I understand your motivation. However the problem is that nobody uses 
ANSI-C for GUI development, nor there is pure ANSI-C IDE for GUI 
applications.

>    b) With your changed (a) scenario, what IDE do you
>       recommend?

MSVC or SharpDevelop

>    c) Without changing the showed scenario, do you
>       know any other tool that does the same work of BCC?

BCC :-)

>    d) Am I wrong about MSVC? Can I do the same Component Based
>       Programming using ANSI-C in the most parts of the code?

I don't see big difference between MFC and VCL. On the other hand, I 
don't think MSVC will ever have MFC-based GUI builder comparable to BCC.