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From: RWMIRA01@ULKYVX.BITNET (Rob Miracle)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: RE: RE: Single character input in VAX Pascal -- Follow up
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Date: 23 Mar 88 18:22:00 GMT
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This is a follow up to my previous posting.

1) The MACRO routine posted does not flush the output buffers as I suspected.
   I seem to remember haveing to do my writes with QIO to get around the
   problem.

2) In my previous message it sounded like I hated BASIC.  Actually I write a
   go deal of my software in BASIC because it is the best language for using
   system services from.  I stand behind my statement about VAX BASIC being
   slow.  If you compile an identical Pascal and BASIC program:

   Pascal                       Basic
   FOR I := 1 TO 10 DO          FOR I% = 1% TO 10%
     Writeln(I);                PRINT I%
                                NEXT I%

   with the /LIST/MACHINE qualifiers, the MACRO code is listed in the listing.
   You can see that the BASIC code makes additional calls to run-time librarys
   and uses more statements than Pascal.  (In the Pascal version above I is
   declared as Integer).

I appoligize about the delay in posting to Comp.os.vms.  I did not notice that
it was cross posted until I tried to find the message with the MACRO code.

Rob Miracle
Programmer/Analyst-II
University of Louisville
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