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Re: best os2 version for development?

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Will Honea <whonea@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Peter Brown wrote:
> 
> > Hi Fritz
> > 
> > Fritz Wuehler wrote:
> >> Hello os2 professionals! What os2 version is best for development? I
> >> mean, what os2 is most stable and has a good choice of compilers
> >> debuggers etc. for my personal use. I just want to learn abit I dont plan
> >> to do commerical software with it and I dont like windows very
> >> much....TIA
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Not sure if there is a "best for development" OS/2 version...
> > 
> > If you are using fairly modern hardware then I suspect eCS may be worth
> > consideration but if not then I guess Warp4 with latest(last) fixpacks
> > applied will be OK.
> > 
> > I'm sure other people will point you at various c compilers so I'm going
> > to suggest you have a look at WDSibyl from http://wdsibyl.org/ This has
> > a Visual Development environment and uses a variant of Pascal - somewhat
> > similar to Borland Delphi v2/3
> 
> I agree pretty much with Peter but my background is a bit closer to the 
> metal for the most part where C/C++/ASM plus REXX are more flexible - you 
> will need at least some assembler code if you get very deep and REXX is the 
> "native" scripting language and will probably be a chore if you need good 
> documentation.  I used the Watcom tools where I could simply because of the 
> cross platform support and the quality of the debugger.  Have a look at 
> www.openwatcom.org for more info.

Hello Will Honea!!! Yes I will be happy to write the assembly using openwatcom
because I used this openwatcom a long years ago for dos....amazing its still
here after so many years....and thanks for your answer.
> 
> -- 
> Will Honea
> 

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  Re: best os2 version for development? Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> - 2011-04-12 19:15 -0400
    Re: best os2 version for development? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201104.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2011-04-14 09:01 +0200
  Re: best os2 version for development? Peter Brown <losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@ntlworld.com> - 2011-04-13 00:26 +0100
    Re: best os2 version for development? Will Honea <whonea@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-12 22:05 -0600
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    Re: best os2 version for development? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201104.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2011-04-13 22:33 +0200
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        Re: best os2 version for development? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201104.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2011-04-14 20:41 +0200
      Re: best os2 version for development? Will Honea <whonea@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-14 11:25 -0600
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          Re: best os2 version for development? Andreas Kohl <ak0120@gmail.com> - 2011-04-20 21:54 +0200
      Re: best os2 version for development? Will Honea <whonea@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-14 11:25 -0600
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