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In article <1501@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> shack@cs.arizona.edu (David Shackelford) writes:
:
>I do have a complaint about Turbo myself -- it's a PC only program,
>and thus as non-portable as you can get.  My earlier statement that I
:

Almost, but not quite.  You can port it to Unix by running it trough
a p2c filter.  Not a good solution at all, but not as non-portable
as one get either. 

In a more general note, turbo vs standard is one of these eternal
questions that pops up at cyclical intervals, is hotly debated for
awhile and then lies dormant for the next cycle to be triggered off
by someone's posting.  Not to say that it isn't an interesting
subject.  On the contrary.  The line usually becomes finally drawn
roughly between the purists who see the standards as an end, and the
practical application writers who see programming languages just as
tools.  The same plot is sometimes repeated under somewhat varying
subjects.  BTW, the pervious such cycle debated the horrors of
GoTos. 

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