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- From: tsullivan@trentu.ca (God)
- Subject: Re: Why I am considering Stony Brooks Pascal+ 6.1 over BP7.0
- Message-ID: <19NOV199208144734@trentu.ca>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:14:00 GMT
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- In article <NMOUAWAD.92Nov18152918@math.waterloo.edu>, nmouawad@waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad) writes...
- >
- >If you were in my shoes and given the above configurations would you
- >choose it instead of BP7.0 or not ?
-
- Honestly, I'd choose BP. Having used SBP+ 6.0, I'll say that compilation
- time is quite slow in comparison. In fact, when I used it on a program that
- was upwards of 30000 lines, it would take about 7 minutes to compile,
- versus TP6.0, which took just under a minute. For that reason alone, I'd
- say develop in TP, then recompile in SBP+ for the release version.
-
- >How is the environment different from TP ? Is it aukward to use ?
-
- Very, very, very. In many cases, it is superior, but it takes a good deal
- of time to get used to. It forces a certain type of hierarchy of
- directories (ie prog, prog\source, prog\object, etc).
- One of the better features is that it gives you a view of the entire
- program. Instead of having multi-layered windows and whatnot, it has a sort
- of "choose your file" type of interface. It classifies everything as either
- a .PAS, a .TPU, .OBJ etc, and clicking on the program brings up the source
- if available. It will (if the program is uncomplete), bring up listings for
- dependancies that don't exist yet, etc. Strange, but really cool. Again, it
- take a few hours/days of fiddling to get the hang of it.
-
- >They mention SOURCE compatibility. Does this precludes compiled units?
-
- No. You cannot use precompiled .TPUs.
-
-
- Tim Sullivan
- tsullivan@trentu.ca
- cstes@blaze.trentu.ca
-
- A Disclaimer? Yeah, and people BELIEVE what I write, too...
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