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From: tsl@netsys.UUCP (Tom Livingston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS QuickBASIC (Really: TurboC and Turbo Pascal)
Message-ID: <1864@netsys.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 87 18:09:53 GMT
References: <3694@rosevax.Rosemount.COM>
Reply-To: tsl@netsys.UUCP (Tom Livingston,Contributor)
Organization: NetSys Public Access Network
Lines: 20
Keywords: Borland, Turbo C, Turbo Pascal
Summary: TurboC _can_ call Turbo Pascal

In article <3694@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> richw@rosevax.Rosemount.COM (Rich Wagenknecht) writes:
>4) The ability to easily call routines written in C,Pascal,assembler and 
>   Fortran. This is where MS has really blown Borland sky high. It is so
>   easy to do. It allows programmers to use critical algorhythms from
>   other languages.
>
>  I believe #4 to be MS coup-de-gras (<-sp??). Will Turbo PASCAL programs
>ever be able to call Turbo C routines? Borland has alot of catching up to
>do.
	Aha!  But this is where you're wrong!  Turbo C can call Turbo Pascal
(4.0) programs _right_now_.  With 4.0, borland changed their implementation
of Turbo Pascal so that it used industry (yes, MS) standard .obj format
for their object modules.  This means that any other program that uses these
can interact with Turbo Pascal.  Turbo C has always been like this.

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