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- Congratulations to the THINK Technologies Division of Symantec
- for THINK Pascal 2.0!!
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- Another _outstanding_ development tool.
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- I was pleased to see that THINK C libraries could be included
- in THINK Pascal projects. I suspected that many pointer intensive
- routines would best be written in C, using register variables to
- decrease execution time.
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- So, I commenced to write a C routine which would fill a pointer
- with a character, assuming it would execute faster than any
- equivalent routine written in Pascal. I was surprised at the
- results. Make that astounded. So, I investigated further, and
- this little demo project, or projects, is the result.
-
- It seems to me that development systems for microcomputers are
- becoming quite sophisticated, generating tighter, more efficient
- code all the while. Perhaps we'll reach a point some time soon
- where the development environment, or language, will simply be
- a matter of preference of syntax, as the generated code will be
- indistinguishable from language to language.
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- Any comments? I'd like to hear them.
-
- Galen Babcock
-
- CompuServe: 74666,2457
- GEnie: G.BABCOCK
-
- or
-
- Computer Programming Services, Inc.
- 4200 Somerset Suite 230
- Prairie Village, KS. 66208
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-