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Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> BTW, who does "they" refer to here (who want your code in Turbo-C)?
>>
> 
> The university.

Weird. Perhaps they have a specific lesson to teach using such
libraries. But without specifying the caveat, IMHO they are not taking
the right approach to teaching.


>> Further, I would be very surprised if ANSI compliant code does not
>> compile in TC compiler. But using Turbo-C's custom libraries is
>> definitely going to be a problem. Why use them at all? The very first
>> example programs I created were in TC. But using different compilers
>> then (in Linux as well as in Windows) taught me the lesson to avoid
>> proprietary libraries (special the test graphics ones in TC) if I wanted
>> portability.
>>
> 
> I was stuck doing what the course taught. Gladly, I've forgotten the details.
> 
>>> Unfortunately, it doesn't wuite work that way in the real world.
>> It depends how you interpret "real" here. Open source projects also
>> real, yet they can be platform independent.
> 
> The term "can be" being critical here. They can be, if they are
> engineered from the start for that. Otherwise, they are not.
> 

Yup, but as you are experiencing this, this is a very good education
regarding open source tools and standards. Otherwise, all these lessons
would never be tangibly felt. :)

Finally, if the said project are not portable, being open source one can
work to make them so. But with proprietary libs, there is no easy way to
do this, if at all possible. So you see where all this going, right?

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