simple speech manager translation to pascal code

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I have little experience in C and was grateful for the posting, in C,
of speech manager routine calls. It gave me an opportunity to make a
simple exercise to value learning C in the future by the book.
In the following, I paste my C to pascal code translation of a
submission of a quick hack on this archive by Alan Coopersmith as
/info-mac/dev/mac-speech-01.hqx. It was a lot of fun to figure this simple
translation with a kid I mentor and then go on late into the night to make
the compiling linking and execution work.
I tried to comment the code with some of my hard won understanding.
Perhaps this brief segment will improve others courage as it has mine.
I had a lot of psychological inertia to get moving into enthusiastic momentum.
I look forward to translating Alexander W. Kourakos' C demo with Paul
Traue, my mentor-kid. Povl H. Pedersen has given me some reassurance.
Notice what I am trying to say is this isn't much of a boast for me,
just a sense of remarkable joy that I can hook into new system extensions
from apple with pinterfaces. A few years ago the only guys I knew about