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From: mwh1629@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Turbo C vs. Pascal
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Date: 5 Mar 89 22:36:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxf.cso.uiuc.edu!mwh1629    Mar  5 16:36:00 1989


     I have been fiddling with Turbo Pascal and Turbo C, trying to decide
which is best.  My primary concern is the final EXE file size.  C seems
to compile huge.  A program to print "Hello, world." on the screen 
compiled to 9k, while a program to print out a table of numbers and sort
them in Turbo Pascal only took 6k.  A simple Mandelbrot program in Turbo C was 
24k.  Does the size of the C code stop increasing after a certain point
(i.e. a long C program is of equal length to a long Pascal program) or are C
files generally very large?  I'm not overly-concerned with small differences
in size, but it seems to me that if it takes 9k to print something on the
screen, a decent sized C program will fill up my hard drive.

     I also have two general questions. If you compile a program with a language
and then commercially release it are you required to pay some money to the
compiler's maker?  Lastly, what's the deal with version numbers?  I think I
was told that, for example, Version 2.34 means that 4 is a bug fix, 3 is a
minor improvement and 2 is a major change.  Is this correct?

                    Thanks,
                    Matt Henry
"[College is] the most profitable damn nap I ever took." - Cecil Adams.