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From: ddt@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David Taylor)
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Subject: Computer Contest dilemna
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Date: 28 Jan 91 00:44:50 GMT
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The University of Texas IEEE-CS student chapter is having a bit of a dilemna
with our semesterly programming contest.

We conduct a /very/ popular state-wide programming contest here in Austin
every semester.  The machines are IBM PC's; the language is Turbo Pascal.
It's a fine machine and a fine language, but we feel we're slipping a bit
behind the times by leaving out the many C programmers out there.

Here's the problem:  We /seem/ to need to stick to one language because the
contests are of a "dueling subroutine" form.  The Computer Contest Committee
makes a "mother" program which calls two competing subroutines, one at a time.

I understand that there's a problem when you try to use another language's
library at link-time.  I'm not sure I follow the gist of why this breaks down,
but does anybody have any suggestions about how to get Turbo C and Turbo
Pascal to cooperate when linking C subroutines to their Pascal callers?

Any help is appreciated.  Please respond in e-mail.  Thanks.

	=-ddt->