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- From: jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy)
- Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal 7.0
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.213527.25405@trl.oz.au>
- Sender: root@trl.oz.au (System PRIVILEGED Account)
- Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1992Sep15.052059.1511@uwasa.fi> <1992Sep15.135020.27847@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:35:27 GMT
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- exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague) writes:
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- >If Borland takes their Pascal compilers the same route as their
- >C compilers, then I expect TP 7.0 to be a monster. 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.
-
- Same here. Duncan Murdoch asks yes, but, what kind of a cleanup?
- Out with the desktop environment, back to the TP5 interface.
- In fact, back all the way to TP 5.5 with:
- -- unlimited arrays (whole of EMS and if that's not enough,
- onto the hard disk)
- -- some additions to the DOS unit would be nice, but not
- awfully necessary. What I have in mind is procedures
- that rid us of the infamous Retry, Abort and I forgot
- what else, and return whether a printer is connected or
- not. Unnecessary, because bits and pieces that do that
- are available at ftp sites. But it would be nice.
-
- The only reason why I have TP 6 on my hard disk here is that it
- is a 1.2 Gigabyte one, and I vaguely feel that I might need
- to stick some assembler in my code some day. It hasn't happened
- yet. On my own machine at home (only 85 Meg) I soon deleted
- TP 6. Hippopotamuses don't fit in there.
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