Computer/Compiler Specific Questions (was: turboc problem)

[Austin Ziegler]

 In article <20401 at mimsy.umd.edu> chris at 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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