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- From: gmcgrady@swvgs.vak12ed.edu (Garrett McGrady)
- Subject: Re: Who's still using Turbo Pascal 5.5 ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.150520.8189@swvgs.vak12ed.edu>
- Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network (Pulaski)
- References: <1992Nov16.152533.25995@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 15:05:20 GMT
- Lines: 56
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- exuhag@exu.ericsson.se writes:
- > 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
-
- I have one thing to say about Borland's Turbo Pascal 6.0: it
- needs more compiler memory. In my computer science class, we
- had to write a golf program. Some people didn't use arrays
- (because they didn't know how) and kept getting out of memory
- errors. I find that with even utilizing array of records and
- various arrays of the like can take up an ample space of
- memory. So my point is unless you have small programs. You will
- run out of compiler memory with 6.0. For right now I love it
- because I think it is simpler than 5.5.
- --
- Garrett McGrady
-
- gmcgrady@swvgs.vak12ed.edu
-