On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> Spake Eben King on Sunday, June 04, 2006 at 11:29PM -0400:
>> On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
>>
>>> Spake Eben King on Sunday, June 04, 2006 at 11:42AM -0400:
>>>> So I've got this project. It's due Wednesday, and is supposed to be
>>>> something we can do in a day or two. Yeah right, if you know what
>>>> you're doing -- I've already worked on it for most of a week, and am
>>>> unable to fix a bug. Things about "it's your homework -- YOU do it" go
>>>> to /dev/null.
>>>>
>>>> It's in that _other_ OS by decree, but I'm hoping it isn't too far off
>>>> the charter. I'm using "Borland C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 Copyright (c)
>>>> 1993, 2000 Borland". If I'd ever done cross-compilation before, I'd
>>>> consider using g++...
>>>
>>> I've fixed the code so it compiles with g++ -Wall -std=c++98 -pedantic.
>>> Hope it works in Borland.
>>
>> Thanks. The TA had responded (somehow his messages got sent to the
>> "spam" folder), and (possibly among other things) I had not put "()" on
>> the end of methods, and had an extraneous semicolon.
>>
>>> Now, help that is specific to Borland, or the Win32 API, etc, would be
>>> off topic for PIG, as Borland is not free software.
>>
>> Sure it is. They have a free version; that's what I'm using.
>>
>> http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_cbuilder.html
>>
>> Third one down.
>
> ``Free software'' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the
> concept, you should think of ``free'' as in ``free speech,'' not as in
> ``free beer.''
Mea culpa. English needs separate words for libre and gratis.
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