On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 15:41:14 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >I wrote a commercial product in Borland Turbo Pascal somewhere around 1988. We >ended up re-writing it in C. Some combination of the greater availability of >developers and/or an inability to do certain things* in Pascal that we could >do in C. I don't recall exactly. > I once wrote an RTF to Script translator in Apple Pascal. A co-worker asked fora copy, then diiscovered Borland couldn't deal with it. II had used IEEE standard I/O which Borland shunned.
Kinida like IBM Rexx vs. ANSI standard Rexx I/O. I/O may be hard, but vendors are too eager to shirk it. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
