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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: Comments on Turbo (Borland) Pascal 7.0?
- Message-ID: <By34v9.BKx@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 21:26:00 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.131557.7438@odin.diku.dk> <1992Nov20.155938.20026@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <21NOV199209072500@cl2.cl.uh.edu>
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- In article <21NOV199209072500@cl2.cl.uh.edu>, CSCI19DC@cl.uh.edu writes...
- >In article <1992Nov20.155938.20026@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, rwirthli@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ralph Wirthlin) writes...
- >>
- >>>1: Source code hilighting
- >>
- >>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...
- >
- >Every time I read a posting on this particular aspect of BP 7.0, it makes
- >me chuckle.
- >
- >Microsoft QuickPascal, version 1.0...released about four years ago, had this
- >feature. (source code highliting).
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- Everytime I read a posting that seems suggests that microsoft invented
- source highlighting, I have to laugh. This feature was on very eary versions
- of various macintosh pascal compilers (like the one I used as an undergrad).
- In fact, the source code was auto formatted (something I was annoyed by, but
- I can see the usefulness for first time programmers (and the TA's who had to
- grade programs by people forced to take programming)), and any syntactical
- error while typing switched the text to the outline font.
-
- I realize that last sentence reads horribly, but I don't feel like changing it.
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