Well, if you all must know, in case you decide (and have the brains) to compete in a computer-programming competition (CEOI, IOI, and many others - I really don''t know what competitions take place in USA/Canada/Germany/...), you don''t need the Delphi/C++/VB/FreePas/Win32/OpenGL/Direct3D/Allegro stuff. I mean, it''s enough and it''s best to use TP7 (DOS) or TC 3.1 (DOS). Noone wants you to do a graph, or things like that.

For example, a sample contest prolem:

"At a contest there were n winners and k types of prizes that the sponsers have managed to raise, any category having an infinite number of prizes. Find all the ways the sponsers can give the prizes to the winners, so that every winner gets only one prize, and there is at least a prize given from every category.

Input: the input file contains two integers, n (1<=n<=100) and k (1<=k<=100) representing the number of the winners and the number of the prize categories. The two numbers are separated by one space

Output: the output file should contain the number of possible ways the sponsers can give the prizes.

Sample data:
INPUT.TXT OUTPUT.TXT
5 3 25"

This is a contest problem, and it doesn''t need MSVC to be solved... and it''s a tricky one too (God damn it, gotta solve it ''till friday >)

Regards,
Adrian Cearnau aka "Cearny"

BTW, both TP7 and TC3.1 have a Win3.1 IDE. I''m staring at the BC3.1 one at the moment and it looks nice. The thing I can''t stand about the TP7 Win IDE is that the compiling and error-trapping takes a lot, and the DOS IDE seems so... efortless to use, and lightning fast.

The answer to the second question is "Yes, TB7, as well as BC3.1 are 16bit DOS/Win3.1 only".

Tsu: A tip, use TurboVision instead, it''s cool and it doesn''t take you a lifetime to learn (three days tops for the basics)

is turbovision a programming language or a compiler - notepad thingee? (iv never heard of it)

Heh I went back to my highschool to see if they had FINALLY upgraded from the shoddy 486s they were running.

Turns out, they had, using brand new 800Mhz PIIIs,etc.

The teacher stopped teaching Pascal and began teaching Java.

Unfortunately, they used WinNT instead of Win2k on the machines:

Me: "Why?"
Teacher: "It is cheaper"
Me: "Didn''t you just say you were $2000 Under budget?"
Teacher: "..."

*sigh*