Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!tut!santra!kolvi!jku
From: jku@kolvi.hut.fi (Juha Kuusama)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Are Turbo Pascal (vers 4.0) and MS Windows compatible?
Message-ID: <117@kolvi.hut.fi>
Date: 11 Apr 88 07:44:45 GMT
Reply-To: jku@kolvi.UUCP (Juha Kuusama)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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I Have a large application that is CRYING to get the user interface of 
a widows application. The problem is that it is written in Turbo Pascal
(version 4.0) and, as you know, the language for Windows is C.

The question: can a windows application be written in turbo pascal?

I rather not to buy the MS Windows Developers Toolkit to find out that the
answer is a definitely NO. I asked the finns already and got three types of
answers: YES, since TP 4 can link in external code; NO, since windows must
be programmed in C; and MAYBE.

So, if anybody KNOWS for sure, I would like to know. (Just for my peace of
mind: if yes, what special steps are involved in linking and other stages;
if no, why?)

Thanks.
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Juha Kuusama, jku@kolvi.UUCP ( ...!mcvax!tut!kolvi!jku )