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- From: konopka@ils.nwu.edu (Ray Konopka)
- Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal for Windows
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:45:05 GMT
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- In article <+btnxzl.whedon@netcom.com> whedon@netcom.com (Bill Whedon) writes:
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- >
- >On second thought, just to get your feet wet, VB might not be such a bad
- >choice. It certainly does get you right into Windows, and insulates you from
- >much of the nastiness of bits and bytes. Also, VB in particular, and most
- >modern BASICs in general, have evolved to be nearly indistinguishable from
- >Pascal, anyhow, so if you can use VB and avoid GOTO and GOSUB/RETURN, hey,
- >why not?! I still recommend C/C++ as the "serious" language, though. But
- >whatever you choose to do,
- >Have fun!
- >Bill Whedon whedon@netcom.com
- >
-
- Bill Whedon's post will probably start another round of Pascal
- vs. C war. Comparing Basic with Pascal (i.e. Turbo Pascal) is
- totally invalid. Show me the object oriented programming
- extensions of Visual Basic. This is not to say that VB is a
- inferior tool. On the contrary, it is very useful for fast
- prototyping of applications. On the token, Turbo Pascal for
- Windows is a very "serious" language for Windows programming.
- With it, you get access to all of the Windows API calls, as
- well as Borland's Object Windows library. In addition, TPW
- beats the pants of BCC and MSC for compile time. And with
- smart linking, TPW apps are much smaller the their BCC and
- MSC equivalents.
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- Now I realize the above statements will spawn responses that BCC and
- MSC allow you to optimize your code for speed. My point is
- that TPW should not be tossed aside as a non-serious programming
- language. If you prefer TP, with TPW you do not have to learn
- a new programming language to do Windows programming.
-
- Ray Konopka
- konopka@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu
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