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Originally Posted by ApK
I learned with Power C because it only cost $19.95 including a textbook. I still have it.
Sorry for the drift....as you were.
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We used Borland Turbo C for real work, but we experimented with each new update to MS C to see if it improved any. We always went back to Turbo C. It was not until Visual C came around (after the success of Visual Basic), that MS finally got their C compiler reliable enough to use for real work. The "WordStar" key layout of Turbo C really aided my "coding trance" sessions, while Visual C required to much "mousing" and the required eye-hand coordination interfered with my coding trances (you had to drop out of the "dream state" to operate move a mouse pointer on the screen, while key presses were pure reflex (when using the WordStar edit key definitions).
After windows became popular, I did switch to Visual C 6.0, but I mainly used it from the command-line (no distracting GUI that way), and I still do occasionally.
Okay now... where were we? Oh yeah, special offers. Note to OP: You CAN remove them, and there are Dev Corner threads (and YouTube videos) that show you how. But you need to go find them yourself, because we do not encourage that.