Re: How's dot.net doing nowadays?


"dpb" <none@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:fn5q87$o9f$1@xxxxxxxxxxx
Ralph wrote:
...
The calling convention that we call "stdcall" today, was originally
keyworded "_fortran", ...

I'll admit I'm a (very) latecomer to the world of MS (and PC's in
general) but I thought that was PASCAL???

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By the time MSC came along "PASCAL" became the more common keyword. MSC
provided both, fortran and pascal, to be source compatible with other
compilers. Another common keyword in the early days was _basic. <g>

[I should probably add, before someone nails me, fortran and stdcall are not
exactly the same thing. fortran converts all names to upper-case, stdcall
does not.]

-ralph


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