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- From: pf@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu (Paul Furbacher)
- Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal 7.0
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- Distribution: comp.lang.pascal
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 01:34:49 GMT
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- There have been a lot of very vague criticisms about the
- TP 6.0 IDE, but few that really make any constructive
- comments. One writer suggests that it tries to "provide
- an entire windowing environment than something tuned
- for developing programs". Huh? Error-tracking, multiple
- files open at a time, etc -- these are not useful features
- of a development environment. Had there been a comment
- on the lack of project management features a la TC/BC++
- IDE or Think Pascal/C (Mac), I could agree. Or that
- control-H is broken just about everywhere in input lines.
- Or that the filemask in File|Open dialogs never reflects the
- last one instead of the default "*.pas" (this is broken in the
- design in STDDLG.PAS).
-
- What can one possibly have against the ability to open
- multiple files in overlapping windows? Do you
- really want to go back to one file open at a time (TP 5)?
-
- How about TP 7.0 on punch cards? As part of the upgrade
- each loyal TPist gets a refurbished punch card reader.
-
- Others complain about TP's bugginess.
- --Is TP so bug ridden that it impairs your ability to program
- successfully? Are you unable to finish projects because
- of its bugginess? This would be somewhat of a surprise to
- me, but admittedly, I live in a very small corner of the
- programming world. I'd like to hear exactly, not vaguely,
- how devastating these all-important bugs are to those of you
- who suggest "no more enhancements, just fix the bugs".
-
- Bloat.
- --Then there's also the complaint about bloat, akin to that about
- needing more than 64K RAM in a machine. Time and technologies
- march on. Things get bigger, and yes, better. Don't fight change
- so much.
-
- On the other side of this, am I missing something when I
- get a total of less than a megabyte for the barebones
- TP 6.0? You don't have to load all the examples, TV,
- utilities, etc. Complaining about the 49 Mb of BC++/AF is like
- complaining about too many Christmas toys -- you don't have to
- play with them all. As one who never got too many toys (sob),
- I revel in all those megabytes -- what many of you call bloat.
-
- My wishes (relatively worthless):
- I'm hoping that Borland Pascal will cleverly extend TV into a
- switchable text/graphical environment a la ZIL (Zinc
- Interface Library available for C++ programmers). I expect
- developments which will go off in directions different from
- those *I* would have them go, but that is life. I won't whine.
-
- PF
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