I thought Turbo Pascal was awesome. I came from a background where I thought normal program development was punch your program into cards, hand it to the operators, come back tomorrow for the listing. The Turbo Pascal was an IDE. If you had a compile error the source code popped up on your screen with the cursor at the error. I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
But it was what it was. Not sure if you could call out to assembler. The product needed to hook two or three DOS interrupts. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 4:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PL/I question On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 15:41:14 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >I wrote a commercial product in Borland Turbo Pascal somewhere around 1988. We >ended up re-writing it in C. Some combination of the greater availability of >developers and/or an inability to do certain things* in Pascal that we could >do in C. I don't recall exactly. > I once wrote an RTF to Script translator in Apple Pascal. A co-worker asked fora copy, then diiscovered Borland couldn't deal with it. II had used IEEE standard I/O which Borland shunned. Kinida like IBM Rexx vs. ANSI standard Rexx I/O. I/O may be hard, but vendors are too eager to shirk it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
