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To: JC Jaros who wrote (1988)	12/21/1999 7:37:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 2617

It's a caution, languages. If you stick within one vendor like Whitechapel or whatever, then different languages are not hard to call. OR so it is said. Different C's all have different syntax and command structures. I did some translation of Borland to other flavours of C. Took some doing. Borland always had a fast compiler and good basic stuff but their display stuff and fonts were kinda amateur. Kinda weak on the GUI stuff and buggy. Surprising who gets that stuff screwed up. But it was fast. Just try calling Borland routines from MS C. uh huh. Sure. Sure. If you want to spend the rest of your life on debugging. I don't know if you can use Backus's Fortran and call pascal and C routines in the GNU compiler. GNU fortran is not well supported anymore as the main guy quit after 7 years or burnt out and anyway it was fortran code to C and then out. Kinda defeats the purpose as Fortran is natively faster on a PC. Up to twoce as fast as C. I like Pascal to write in. You can get routines up and running pretty fast and bug free. But it's slow and wordy. VB can do some neat stuff but is very hard to organize. You can bogged in event windows and monitoring all the windows is a caution thought it can be kludged. I wrote a mailer in VB that used all kinds of different mailing lists and absorbed mailing lists in ascii format and stuck the names in the to field to avoid the bulk mail wrapper. Wored fast. But VB is short on pro tools to do real work. Everything useful such as neat grids and comm stuff is a $$$$ add on. It is an area that could use some work. EC<:-}

To: JC Jaros who wrote (1988)	12/21/1999 10:44:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

All God's Chillun: Front End, Data entry trial math code, engineering -- BASIC (Beginner's all purpose symbolic instruction code) Scientific, calcs, display -- FORTRAN (Formula Translation) Structure, engineering -- WATFIV-S (Waterloo Fortran Five -S) Code Structure, speed -- RATFOR (rational fortran, preprocessor with C grammar ) Low Level System, functions -- "C" (after "a" and "b") Structure -- PASCAL (teaching language) Scripting, interaction -- LISP Business data structure database, -- COBOL (Common Business oriented language) Machine Control -- FORTH Event Language, front end -- VB, Visual Languages Database Control -- RBASE, ORACLE, RPG, VB, some C add-ons, Watcom.. COMMUNICATION, speed, system -- machine language (can't be beat for some tasks) EC<:-}