[Coco] Expert C programmer wanted

[Frederick D Provoncha]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:29:22 -0800 "Neil Morrison" <neilsmorr at hotpop.com>
writes:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark McDougall" <msmcdoug at optushome.com.au>
> 
> 
> > KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > In a message dated 2/8/05 2:35:37 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> > > neilsmorr at hotpop.com writes:
> > >
> > > I'd take  that with a grain of salt. I've never found C to be 
> very
> > > portable and  sometimes it's horrendously unportable. FWIW, I 
> always
> look
> > > at  Pascal compilers first - personal taste.
> >
> > Ahhh, so *you're* the one that still programs in Pascal... ;)
> 
> No, far from it, but I find C Compilers for small CPUs are not very
> efficient or effective. It's a popular fetish these days to use them 
> but I
> found Pascal worked better on tiny systems.

Has anyone ever succeeded in doing system calls in an OS-9 Pascal
program? I haven't ever been able to figure out a way. Without syscalls,
I can't add mouse support to any OS-9 Pascal programs. That was the main
reason why I gave up programming in Pascal on the Coco a while back. But
if anyone has an idea as to how to do it, I might try again.

Fred Provoncha
Stansbury Park, UT