* Louis Rizzuto got everyone's attention by mumbling this to Edwin Groothuis:

 LR> I guess most people can't understand, unless they have walked a mile
 LR> in my shoes, on what a nightmare this situation is when you have over
 LR> 50, 000 lines of Pascal, complex stuff, and about 10 years of research
 LR> and development involved, and - now what?  Convert it to C++?  Sure,
 LR> right - just what I have always wanted to do - go broke doing nonsense
 LR> conversions.  

Forgive me for saying this, Louis, but you should have paid closer attention
to the writing on the wall 10 years ago, when Turbo Pascal was still stuck in
DOS (like it is now) while C compilers were available on every platform known
to Man (like they are now). :-)  By stubbornly refusing to abandon Pascal for
a language that is better suited for serious, cross-platform development, you
have effectively become the proverbial "man painting himself into a
corner".

You really have only two viable choices:  Stay with Borland's Pascal, which
means cornering yourself in the Intel world of DOS and Windows, or move all
development over to a more widespread language, which will open you up to an
almost unlimited selection of platforms for which to write applications.  To
sit there and bide your time, wishing for some third alternative to "pull
your fat from the fire", is to merely delay the inevitable.

(Please understand that I say all of this not to insult, but to lay bare what
I believe to be the harsh realities of the situation.  I understand and
sympathize with your plight, but it wouldn't be right to encourage you with
false hopes, or to lead you to an oasis that would turn out to be a desert
mirage.)

                           -=[> Martin Pollard <]=-

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