From: Fritz Wuehler    
      
   Will Honea  wrote:   
      
   > Peter Brown wrote:   
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   > > Hi Fritz   
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   > > 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   
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   > > 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.   
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