Andre John Cruz wrote:
>
> most schools are MS-centric or Borland-centric when it
> comes to programming. man, they still use those Turbo C
> stuff in class! why don't they switch to gcc? 8P... of
> course that conio.h and graphics.h stuff won't work anymore
> but at least the 16-bit limitations will be gone!
>
hmph! lucky you if that was your school.
when i left mine, they were teaching turbo pascal!
i have some code from around my time in school that i want to gpl, but
just the thought of 'linting' the darn things after passing them through
p2c just makes me feel...well...lazy.
and then there's porting the DOS calls to their *nix equivalents.
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