Best compiler?

at the end of the day, if it works it works.
and kage visual studios 2008 pro is infact the best

I've been coding for about 3 years now. I have been across the spectrum of Compilers. In my altruistic preference... BORLAND CPP!!! Easy to learn, Fast, Debugs with ease, I like the highlighting, I touch it some times (in that special pre-process).

sry this account is hacked i dot are a spamer sry.........

whats with the people saying 'easy to learn' on a specific compiler o__O
ITS STILL C++ AND USES THE SAME SYNTAX...

Because people can't figure out the difference between a compiler and an IDE? Finally someone said it.. lol (not surprised it was you HD!) I was thinking that the entire time reading this...

The error messages are sometimes clearer with different compilers.

I use borland 5.5, it's free and it works nicely. I like using it from the command line, so I can have a nifty little file called Compile.cmd that I just put in a folder with my source.

Visual C++ 2008 Professional.

visual C++ 2008 or 2010 all the way man. why? because its best for making windows programs.