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- From: tsullivan@trentu.ca (The OTHER One True God)
- Subject: Re: Comments on Turbo (Borland) Pascal 7.0?
- Message-ID: <21NOV199211033283@trentu.ca>
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- References: <1992Nov18.131557.7438@odin.diku.dk> <1992Nov20.155938.20026@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <21NOV199209072500@cl2.cl.uh.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:03:00 GMT
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- In article <21NOV199209072500@cl2.cl.uh.edu>, CSCI19DC@cl.uh.edu writes...
- >>
- >>This *one* has personally saved me alot of grief. Have you ever
- >>commented a piece of code and forgot to put on the closing "*)" and...
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- >Microsoft QuickPascal, version 1.0...released about four years ago, had this
- >feature. (source code highliting).
- >
- >Seems like nobody thought it was very important at the time, eh?
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- Not true. It was very important. However, an important editor surrounding
- a severly inferior product does not a standard make. MSQP bit the big
- kahoona, and source-code highlighting didn't change that.
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- Tim Sullivan
- tsullivan@trentu.ca
- cstes@blaze.trentu.ca
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- A Disclaimer? Yeah, and people BELIEVE what I write, too...
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