Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!gdavis From: gdavis@primate.wisc.edu (Gary Davis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's? Message-ID: <1299@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> Date: 15 Dec 89 15:37:38 GMT References: <3317@hub.UUCP> Sender: news@primate.wisc.edu Reply-To: gdavis@primate.wisc.edu Lines: 11 From article <3317@hub.UUCP>, by 6600pete@hub.UUCP: > If you can make a persuasive case that somehow Pascal calling sequence is > inferior to C calling sequence, I'm with you. As I understand it, C's > Pete Gontier | InterNet: 6600pete@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu, BitNet: 6600pete@ucsbuxa Bill Gates argues the opposite: that the Pascal calling convention is more efficient than that of C and that's why they used the Pascal convention in Windows (OS/2 as well??). I don't know the reasoning behind this. Gary Davis