Re: Needing help with Turbo Pascal and MS-Windows

Article View: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer

Article #507

Back to comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Previous Next

#507

From: Dale Rogerson
Date: Fri, 25 May 1990 12:29

24 lines
1648 bytes

In article <1990May22.113556.6777@usenet@kadsma> pajerek@isctsse.UUCP (Don Pajerek) writes:
>In article <3838@rtifs1.UUCP> bcw@rti.rti.org (Bruce Wright) writes:
>>In article <2926@rwthinf.UUCP>, pmk@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Keukert) writes:
>>> I have big trouble. Today, my boss surprised me with the message,
>>> I have to convert a Turbo Pascal 5.0 program into a MS-Windows
>>> program. 

>Turbo Pascal doesn't support Windows. However, Microsoft Pascal does.
>Also, there's a chance that TopSpeed Modula2 does also (the TopSpeed C
>compiler supports both OS/2 and Windows).

The Stony Brook Professional Modula2 *DOES* support programming for DOS,
Windows, and OS/2 in one package.  This use to be the only Modula2 which
did support Windows as far as I know it still is. 


>I would think that the best choice here would be Modula2, *if* the
>Windows support is there. If not, I'm afraid you're stuck with either
>Microsoft Pascal or Microsoft C.

I also agree that the best choice would be to move to Modula2.

-----Dale
	Rogerson-----

Technical Details

Message-ID: <3039@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!swrinde!emory!hubcap!ncrcae!PEDEV!rogerson

References: <2926@rwthinf.UUCP> <3838@rtifs1.UUCP> <1990May22.113556.6777@usenet@kadsma>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!swrinde!emory!hubcap!ncrcae!PEDEV!rogerson
From: rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Needing help with Turbo Pascal and MS-Windows
Message-ID: <3039@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 25 May 90 12:29:18 GMT
References: <2926@rwthinf.UUCP> <3838@rtifs1.UUCP> <1990May22.113556.6777@usenet@kadsma>
Reply-To: rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson)
Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC
Lines: 24

Reply to Parent Message