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

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