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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo C vs. Pascal (and bug fixes)
Message-ID: <24166f3b@ralf>
Date: 9 Mar 89 12:34:03 GMT
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In article <4006@ttidca.TTI.COM>, hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) writes:
}In article <46500039@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu> mwh1629@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
}}... 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 putch()
}loop is all you need for "Hello world.".

Even simpler,

main()
{
     puts("Hello, world.") ;
}

}This probably varies by manufacturer.  Major vs. minor vs. bug fix are
}rather subjective, anyway.  Ask and they might tell you, but don't expect
}anyone to call a bug fix a bug fix. (-:

Yeah, Ashton-Tate is now calling them "anomalies"....  dBASE IV has lots of
"anomalies" that A-T will admit to, but no "bugs".
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