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- From: dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
- Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal 7.0
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- References: <dmurdoch.155.716569099@mast.queensu.ca> <1992Sep15.200311.24117@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 00:57:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep15.200311.24117@exu.ericsson.se> exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague) writes:
- >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've got that big list of bugs I'd like to see fixed. All of them have been
- reported to Borland, but I'm sure they disagree with me about whether some
- are bugs, and others will probably lose the triage competition. Still, I'm
- hopeful that at least the worst ones will be fixed.
-
- >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.
-
- There are some real irritating things in the IDE, but I find I use it more
- and more. I'm less hopeful about the irritants being removed, because some
- of them seem to be by design - the awful default for searches, the
- disappearing option dialogs.
-
- Duncan Murdoch
- dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca
-