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- From: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: Comments on Turbo (Borland) Pascal 7.0?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.171752.20524@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:17:52 GMT
- References: <By34v9.BKx@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- In article BKx@acsu.buffalo.edu, v206gb6c@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (IS AN ILLEGAL PERSON NAME) writes:
- >
- > 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).
-
- Going back even further, there were programming systems on larger computers
- in the seventies which did this. They often used proportional fonts with
- boldfacing and italics, etc., to give a nice onscreen program representation.
- Not common, I admit, but there nonetheless.
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- James Hague
- exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
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