Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!kodak!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!uwasa.fi!ts From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) Newsgroups: comp.org.acm Subject: Re: Turbo Vs Pascal. Message-ID: <1991May11.162922.9746@uwasa.fi> Date: 11 May 91 16:29:22 GMT References: <1494@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <1991May10.141756.17997@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1501@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Organization: University of Vaasa Lines: 26 In article <1501@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> shack@cs.arizona.edu (David Shackelford) writes: : >I do have a complaint about Turbo myself -- it's a PC only program, >and thus as non-portable as you can get. My earlier statement that I : Almost, but not quite. You can port it to Unix by running it trough a p2c filter. Not a good solution at all, but not as non-portable as one get either. In a more general note, turbo vs standard is one of these eternal questions that pops up at cyclical intervals, is hotly debated for awhile and then lies dormant for the next cycle to be triggered off by someone's posting. Not to say that it isn't an interesting subject. On the contrary. The line usually becomes finally drawn roughly between the purists who see the standards as an end, and the practical application writers who see programming languages just as tools. The same plot is sometimes repeated under somewhat varying subjects. BTW, the pervious such cycle debated the horrors of GoTos. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37 School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun