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- From: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: Who's still using Turbo Pascal 5.5 ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.152533.25995@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 15:25:33 GMT
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- fdeck@grumpy.helios.nd.edu (francis deck) writes:
- >
- >I'm still using 5.0! I decided a while ago that I would not sink
- >any more money into computers, period, as long as I am in grad
- >school. I love Borland, but all these companies' new releases
- >were really nickel-and-dime'ing me. So, I decided to "freeze"
- >my system, hardware and all.
-
- I still use 4.0. Since Pascal is not my primary language and I haven't
- found a compelling need for TP's OOP features or TurboVision, I get
- along just fine. In fact, I just wrote a few tools in TP 4.0 over the
- past weekend.
-
- There's no inline assembly, but I rarely need assembly language for
- the kind of things I use Pascal for and I can always use TASM if need
- be.
-
- There's no debugger, but I try very hard not to become debugger
- reliant. I've found that adding some conditionally compiled code
- to most routines--writeln's to standard output--works just fine.
- I can then redirect a Crt-using or graphics related program to
- a file and get some nice high-level tracings.
-
- There's no 286 code generation, but so what.
-
- What I've got is a 115K compiler (with integrated editor) that
- does 90% of what TP 6.0 does--certainly 100% of what I need--and
- doesn't do any sort of mysterious disk accesses. And I didn't
- spend the money and time to make three upgrades in the past five
- years. I could go right on using it for the next five years without
- any problems. It has been a good exercise in self-restraint; there
- is far too much unnecessary marketing pressure in the computer
- industry, and a belief that anything over a year old is severely
- dated and worthless.
-
- I may actually upgrade soon, but only because I'd like to be able
- to use some units which need TP 6.0 or greater to run.
-
- --
- James Hague
- exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
-