ddt@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David Taylor) (01/28/91)
The University of Texas IEEE-CS student chapter is having a bit of a dilemna with our semesterly programming contest. We conduct a /very/ popular state-wide programming contest here in Austin every semester. The machines are IBM PC's; the language is Turbo Pascal. It's a fine machine and a fine language, but we feel we're slipping a bit behind the times by leaving out the many C programmers out there. Here's the problem: We /seem/ to need to stick to one language because the contests are of a "dueling subroutine" form. The Computer Contest Committee makes a "mother" program which calls two competing subroutines, one at a time. I understand that there's a problem when you try to use another language's library at link-time. I'm not sure I follow the gist of why this breaks down, but does anybody have any suggestions about how to get Turbo C and Turbo Pascal to cooperate when linking C subroutines to their Pascal callers? Any help is appreciated. Please respond in e-mail. Thanks. =-ddt->
pipkinsj@cpqhou.uucp (Jeff Pipkins @Adv Dev@SE hou ) (01/29/91)
Why not have two categories? You know, like lightweight vs heavyweight? (We all know which is which, don't we? ;^) -- Jeff D. Pipkins (uunet!cpqhou!pipkinsj) My disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer. Papaw's disclaimer: I've already told you more than I know.