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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal Rumor
Message-ID: <2879@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 12:18:34 EST
Article-I.D.: sunybcs.2879
Posted: Mon Apr  6 12:18:34 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Apr-87 03:34:32 EST
References: <110@usafa.UUCP> <1614@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <482@cblpe.UUCP>
Reply-To: jmpiazza@gort.UUCP (Joseph M. Piazza)
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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Keywords: Pascal

In article <482@cblpe.UUCP> feb@cblpe.UUCP (55216-Franco Barber) writes:
>In article <1614@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> mikeb@cbmvax.UUCP (Mike Brenner SW) writes:
>If anyone out there can get the attention of Phillippe Kahn, could they
>suggest he skip over Turbo Pascal for the Amiga and go straight to 
>Turbo C? 
>
>I mean, why not! ...

	How about that some people would like to use Pascal on the Amiga?
> ...  using arguments passed in registers (ala assembler or C) instead of the
>stack (ala pascal).

	You seem (to me) to be mixing up the purpose of a high level language
(its ability to effectively express algorithms) and its implementation.

	This path leads inevitably to the Dark Side of the Force.  :-)

Flip side,

	joe piazza

--- Cogito ergo equus sum.

CS Dept. SUNY at Buffalo 14260

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