Yes, but none of that would need to change. I hate to keep harping on Object Pascal, but it really is a nice implementation: in OP, you can pass a string to a

Yes, but none of that would need to change. I hate to keep harping on Object Pascal, but it really is a nice implementation: in OP, you can pass a string to a C API, such as the Windows APIs, like this: Result:=CreateFile(pChar(FileName), AccessMode,ShareMode,nil, OpenFlags,AttrFlags,0); where FileName is a String and pChar is the more traditional C-style pointer to an array of characters. The compiler will prevent you from passing a Unicode/Wide string to an API call that expects an ANSI string pointer, or vice-versa. So, interop with the system-level APIs of Windows or Linux is seamless and easy.