Are there specific compilers required for C programming?

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Yes. There are many C compilers on the market, and C code is utterly useless
unless it's compiled. Different compilers will often have subtle dialect
differences in the syntax and features of the language.

I'm curious that you're asking this question in a newsgroup supporting the
altogether different program Microsoft Access.
 
Thank you for your response. a few years ago I had taken a course in C++
programming to determine the basis of most programs. It was very interesting
and gave me a little background [very basic] information on programming set
up for accomplishing a way to provide a source for our company to handle
orders etc. After that experience I handled our orders, inventory and
various other information with Lotus Smart Suite and QuickBookPro. My
husband and I had a Company that was abnormal and did not handle ordinary
"widgets". It is a semi service company that reclaims industrial oils.
Basically it acquires oil from the customer and reprocesses it to a "like
new" oil and returns it to the customer at the cost of restoration. This
company is currently being run and handled by our children. I still help
with refining their processes and hoped to learn to use Microsoft Access
enough to change over to confirm to the majority of the users in the
industries.
 
Thank you for your response. a few years ago I had taken a course in C++
programming to determine the basis of most programs. It was very interesting
and gave me a little background [very basic] information on programming set
up for accomplishing a way to provide a source for our company to handle
orders etc. After that experience I handled our orders, inventory and
various other information with Lotus Smart Suite and QuickBookPro. My
husband and I had a Company that was abnormal and did not handle ordinary
"widgets". It is a semi service company that reclaims industrial oils.
Basically it acquires oil from the customer and reprocesses it to a "like
new" oil and returns it to the customer at the cost of restoration. This
company is currently being run and handled by our children. I still help
with refining their processes and hoped to learn to use Microsoft Access
enough to change over to confirm to the majority of the users in the
industries.
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ok... that's interesting... but irrelevant.

C is one language (actually a family of older languages).

C++ is a QUITE DIFFERENT language, one which grew out of C but is distinct.

Neither one is used in ordinary Access database developement (though I believe
large parts of the Access executable were written in C, C++ or C# or some
combination of the above).

In any case, there is no C (or C++ or C#) compiler in Access, and Access would
not be a suitable programming enviornment for such programs.

Do you want to develop applications for this business in Access (for which the
programming language of choice is Visual Basic for Applictions, aka VBA)? or
in C? or in C++? Either of the latter will be a VAST amount more work.
 
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