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[Dotan Cohen]

> BTW, who does "they" refer to here (who want your code in Turbo-C)?
>

The university.

> 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.

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