I was looking around and came across this. Thought all you cheap people, or MS haters might dig this. Dunno anything about it just saw the artical and thought I would pass it on.


Zortech C++ lives!

Posted by: John Hattan at 11:44

This story starts around 1986. A small company named Zortech released the first commercial C++ compiler for the PC, a full five years before Microsoft and Borland. Around the time that Zortech got serious competition, Symantec bought 'em out, adding a nice IDE and debugger and releasing it as Symantec C++ for Windows. Eventually Symantec got out of the development tool business, and the original author retained the rights to the tools.
Fast-forward a couple of years, and we've now got Digital Mars C++. It claims to be fully compatible with Visual C++ code, object files, and debugging information. It supports MFC and STL. Best of all, it's only $30 on CD!

http://www.digitalmars.com/