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Originally Posted by wize_one
the link is to a FREE C++ from microsoft.. IF you get it in the next year
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ehem 'free' and 'microsoft' don't really mix, besides, if you REALLY want to learn/compile C++ code NOT written for M$'s .NET framework, it's not even worth it. Besides MingW is the direct Windows port of GCC(GNU(GNU's Not Unix) Compiler Collection) and is for one Open Source(GPL!! GPL!!!), still FREE(Bah, I know M$'s is, but whatever), AND on top of all of that its around a 20-50mb download last time I checked, compared to up to 600MB for Visual Studio Express Edition C++. Maybe I'm a Micro$oft basher, oh wait, I AM!!! I ONLY, ONLY, use Windows for my gaming, everything else can be done just as well(if not better) in Linux so *middle finger* Microsoft. Anyways getting off-topic, but yeah, why use a bloated Microsoft C++ compiler instead of a port of the best free C/C++ compiler in histroy.