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Re: Some Basics - strings and Conversions

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Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
> mrc2323@cox.net (Mike Copeland) writes:
>>> Nobody in their right mind uses VS6 these days!
>>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>    Yes, I get that a lot.  8<{{
>>    If I could switch to one of the free compilers, I would do so.  
>> However, with over 1,000,000 lines of code with dependencies on STL and 
>> other things that don't seem to be in the free versions, I can't.
>
> Wait, there are free C++ compilers without an STL implementation?!

BTW, I suspect a bigger problem is that you've probably got 1,000,000
lines of code with dependencies on the wacky non-standard behavior of
VS6...

-miles

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Some Basics - strings and Conversions mrc2323@cox.net (Mike Copeland) - 2012-04-16 16:07 -0700
  Re: Some Basics - strings and Conversions red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid> - 2012-04-16 16:50 -0700
    Re: Some Basics - strings and Conversions mrc2323@cox.net (Mike Copeland) - 2012-04-17 14:59 -0700
      Re: Some Basics - strings and Conversions Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-18 10:43 +1200
        Re: Some Basics - strings and Conversions mrc2323@cox.net (Mike Copeland) - 2012-04-17 20:43 -0700
          "ThePirateBay.SE" has a cracked copy of Visual Studio 2010.  @Jeff-Relf.Me - 2012-04-17 20:55 -0700
          Re: Some Basics - strings and Conversions Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-04-18 13:27 +0900
            Re: Some Basics - strings and Conversions Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-04-18 13:31 +0900
            Re: Some Basics - strings and Conversions drew@furrfu.invalid (Drew Lawson) - 2012-04-18 17:33 +0000
  Re: Some Basics - strings and Conversions Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-17 15:49 +1200
    Re: Some Basics - strings and Conversions drew@furrfu.invalid (Drew Lawson) - 2012-04-17 13:50 +0000

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