Another reason not to use Turbo C for Windows programming -- it can not be use for that. Turbo C is a 16-bit compiler and can not access any of the 32-bit MS-Windows libraries or DLLs.

I didn't realize Turbo C++ Explorer is no longer available. It must not have become very popular, nothing like its predecessors Turbo C or Turbo C++.

I think that has something to do with the 'ring' the name has with programmers who only know Turbo as an outdated compiler (like me). Tom is right on that point, Turbo has been bashed on for a few years now and that is indoctrinating the "younger" programmers like myself.

I have solved all problems now as I am using gcc compiler now.

I use Turbo C++, and find it MUCH more friendlier than Microsoft. I worked with Microsoft products for years because that was what the companies wanted, but for myself I always something that worked. Microsoft products do what Microsoft wants, but often not what I want (or the way I want to do it). I really do not have complaints with Borland, but I would often come home from work bitching, bitching, bitching about what Microsoft products would NOT do.

I however always did get a laugh when I went to Microsoft for some tutorial or sample code on something, then found out that what their tutorial was teaching was wrong or that their sample code did not work. Microsoft products are a joke.

IDE STANDS FOR Integrated design environment. it is something similar to WYSIWYG editors.

THE Differences between tc++ and visual c++ is diffference in the header files,otherwise the syntax is same.

and libraries and DLLs -- tc++ doesn't use dll's.

Yes, their documentation was notoriously horrible in past years (10+ years), but they've cleaned it up quite a bit since then.