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- From: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal 7.0
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.200311.24117@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 20:03:11 GMT
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- Duncan Murdoch writes:
- >
- >>I would love
- >>to see Borland clean-up the product, polishing and simplifying
- >>instead of blindly adding features, but I have a feeling this
- >>won't happen.
- >
- >What sort of cleanup do you have in mind? If as someone suggested the new
- >one isn't being released until January, it might be worth sending your
- >comments to Borland now. I doubt if they could add newly suggested features
- >in 4 months, but they could probably clean up old ones.
-
- By cleanup I mean more effort in bug-fixes and improving the existing
- environment than on adding new things. I'm afraid that Borland
- is going to fix only some of the known bugs while introducing many
- more. But there will be all sorts of nifty new things like color
- syntax highlighting and additional IDE features, etc.
-
- I guess my main complaint is with the TP 6.0 IDE. It has a lot
- of features, yes, but IMO it doesn't seem very well thought-out.
- It seems more an attempt to provide an entire windowing environment
- than something tuned for developing programs. Just tacking
- stuff on isn't going to help matters any. TP is changing from
- a well-designed tool into a way of life.
-
- --
- James Hague
- exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
-