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From: [e-mail] (James Hague)
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Subject: Re: Turbo Scheme
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Date: 21 Nov 92 00:14:16 GMT
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James Paul Henley writes:
>
>Ruined Pascal?  No, they gave it to the lowly masses.  I really have problems
>with your pompous attitude in Comp Sci.

I think the original objection was that Borland took a standardized
language, added and removed and changed things to suit its own purposes,
and then released it as Pascal.  Yes, the result is a wonderful
language, one eminently more useful than its predecessor, but the
end result just isn't that same language which is described in the
Pascal standard.  Read Kernigan's "Why Pascal Isn't My Favorite
Programming Language."  Turbo Pascal users will wonder what the
hell is he talking about.

Look at it this way:  what if Borland decided to forget about ANSI
and start doing what it pleases with C?

[I'm not knocking TP--I love the language.  But the original poster
does have a point.]

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James Hague
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