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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Turbo Pascal vs. Turbo C
Message-ID: <3357@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 1 Nov 88 21:05:37 GMT
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidca.tti.com (The Polymath)
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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In light of the recent discussion of Turbo C vs. Microsoft C I'd like to
ask a related question.

I want to do some software development on an IBM PS/2-50 running DOS 4.0.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to support windowing, pull-down menus and the
like.

I've been looking at Turbo C 2.0 and Pascal 5.0.  I notice Borland has a
lot of auxiliary libraries available for TP but nothing similar for TC.

Does Turbo C include support for the things I want to do?  Can I call
Turbo Pascal functions from Turbo C?  For that matter, does Turbo Pascal
support what I want to do?  (I'm talking about library functions, etc.).

I understand that neither interfaces well with MS Windows, but consider
that a minor nuisance, especially if I can do my own windowing
environment.

It's been a long time since I did any serious Pascal work.  I've worked
with C almost exclusively for the past few years.  I'd just as soon stay
with it for familiarity's sake, but I'll switch if I have to.

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