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From: pmjc@ur-tut (Pam Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Are Turbo Pascal (vers 4.0) and MS Windows compatible?
Message-ID: <1796@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 88 22:02:28 GMT
References: <117@kolvi.hut.fi>
Reply-To: pmjc@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Pam Arnold)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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In article <117@kolvi.hut.fi> jku@kolvi.UUCP (Juha Kuusama) writes:
>The question: can a windows application be written in turbo pascal?

I've done some Windows development, and I would say that the answer
is almost certainly NO. It's not just a question of linking in with
external libraries. Some Windows functions (such as those for dialog
boxes) have some special code inserted into the object modules by
the compiler, and only compilers that are totally 'Windows-aware'
can do this. Even with Microsoft C, a special compiler switch is
necessary to get this done.