Welcome back cheawick, it wouldn't be fair to ban you, since you obvius struggle hard and long with your problems befor comming here.
The reason we tend to stick stricktly to one language (C or C++) as defined within the ANSI/ISO standard, is to provide the students with the best and most videly used base within the language, but most importainly not to introduce them to bad programming habits.
I'm still sticking to the
ANSI/ISO/IEC 9899:1999 for the C programming language (
online draft), since I'm an old dog too, and like you said
you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but more importainly it is what works for me...
I'm assuming Valmont will stick to the
ANSI/ISO/IEC 14882:1998 for the C++ language, but I can't tell. For a good read theres
CD2 of the C++ standard it is not the orriginal C++ standard, but very similar.
For me, any compiler which will support the C99 standard will do, which includes DevC++ if I remember correct.
You're more than welcome to address us with any problem you might run into, but since we try and bend people to conform with the standards, the comments which we provide might seem a bit harsh at times.
We're looking forward to the challenge your "windy" mind will provide
