austin@bucsf.bu.edu (Austin Ziegler) (10/29/89)
In article <20401@mimsy.umd.edu> chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
<In many articles many people ask about Turbo C, Microsoft C, and other
<IBM PC / MS-DOS compilers. Unfortunately, they all ask on comp.lang.c
<instead of in a newsgroup about IBM PCs.
I also subscribe to comp.lang.pascal and someone asked that a
comp.lang.pascal.turbo be created. At that time, there were about twenty
postings shooting this idea down because the possibility exists that the
a non-Turbo programmer might be able to solve the problem. Further, it
might also help that non-Turbo programmer if he ever encountered a need to
program on an IBM PC in Turbo Pascal (in this case Turbo C). So as far as
not asking questions specific to computer x or compiler b, I think that
Chris is wrong. Regardless of machine specific implementations, it is
still C. Not everyone is expected to be able to answer machine- or
compiler- specific questions, but we can all learn from such questions.
Anyway, you just might find yourself writing in Turbo C one day...
Austin
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