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- From: null@diku.dk (Niels Ull Jacobsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: Comments on Turbo (Borland) Pascal 7.0?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.131557.7438@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 13:15:57 GMT
- References: <92322.082711DGB4@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Sender: null@tyr.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 35
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- <DGB4@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
-
- >The lab that I presently work for is considering upgrading to the latest
- >version of Turbo (Borland) Pascal and I would like the nets opinion. We
- >are still using version 5.0 & 5.5 in our labs. Is there any great
- >advantage to upgrading if the majority of our users are using only the
- >basic routines?
-
- Off the top of my head, I can think of two great improvements on TP
- 7.0, which are of immediate benefit even if you don't do any "fancy"
- Windows/OO/TurboVision stuff:
-
- 1: Source code highlighting
- You can set it up so that all keywords are white,
- all user identifiers are green, all constants are black, all comments
- are grey and some syntactic errors are red. Of course you can change
- the colour set up. It may sound trivial and confusing, but I find it
- VERY useful - you catch a lot of typing errors as you type.
-
- 2: The browser: You can see a tree of your procedure/function
- definitions, see what is called from where and jump directly to the
- source by pointing at the name of the function.
-
- >All comments welcome,
- >dgb4@psuvm.psu.edu
-
- Niels Ull Jacobsen, Dep. of C.S., U of Copenhagen (null@diku.dk)
- Adaz sighed. "So how long will this journey take?"
- "A month?" Sutekh shrugged. "Depends on when the horses die."
- -- from "Adaz & Sutekh" by Jeff Stehman
- --
- Niels Ull Jacobsen, Dep. of C.S., U of Copenhagen (null@diku.dk)
- Adaz sighed. "So how long will this journey take?"
- "A month?" Sutekh shrugged. "Depends on when the horses die."
- -- from "Adaz & Sutekh" by Jeff Stehman
-