Hello Gary!

Saturday February 17 1996, Gary Chambers writes to Gerard Gerritsen:

 GC> certainly more suited to the latter because of it's flexibility (the
 GC> ease with which typecasting can be accomplished comes to mind), not
 GC> to mention the obvious calling convention differences (easily
 GC> hurdled, though).

But why should it be difficult ?  There are lots of inline macros that can
do the same thing as a typecast in C ( it works for me... )

So porting Presentation Manager C code to (Virtual) Pascal is not that difficult.

 GC>   Additionally, I have discovered that C,
 GC> overall, is syntactically easier to use, *ESPECIALLY* in PM
 GC> programming.

Well, I can almost use C code without conversion in Virtual Pascal
(WinSetWindowText(Hwnd,'Hello'+#0);     { not much to port here... })

I'm not that good in C to start using it for OS/2 programs, I can read C
but I cannot write it ( not as good as I can write in Pascal)...


==> Gerard/2   - member of team os/2 -  1000521{at}ibk.fnt.hvu.nl

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