On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Miguel A.L. Paraz wrote:
..
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 11:12:10PM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> > Just a side note, GCC is NOT "just the same" as Turbo C (tc) or Turbo
> > C/C++ (tcc). The former complies with the ANSI C standard. The latter
> > don't seem to strictly. They have a number of added stuff at least for C
> > like say, getch() and clrscr() that don't work on GCC.
>
> That's not the language per se, but the C library specifications. Even
> something as elemental as printf() is defined in the library and not in the
> language spec. That is what I love about C, it cleanly distinguishes between
> external functions and language primitives. That's what irked me about
> Turbo Pascal, with pseudo-functions like writeln.
There's a conio.h replacement for Linux which is a wrapper around
Curses. Saw it on Sunsite. Although Curses is fun too.. you should try
it. :)
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