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- From: userDHAL@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (David Halliwell)
- Subject: Re: Borland licences (was about old copies of TP)
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:07:10 GMT
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- tsullivan@trentu.ca (The OTHER One True God) writes:
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- > Note the phrasing. Any Borland LANGUAGE Product (read: TP, BP, TC++,
- >BC++, DBASE IV and Paradox). It doesn't include editors (ie BRIEF),
- >debuggers, interpreters, etc. Nor does it include Turbo Vision. It means
- >you can't write (using TP) a TP-compatible compiler that does allow .OBJ
- >file creation, and is faster than TP, and sell it. Which isn't exactly
- >totalitarianism, for the simple reason that you wouldn't WANT to do a
- >project like that in Pascal (well, you might want to, but likly wouldn't).
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- I actually would want to do a Pascal compiler in Pascal, if Borland's
- licence allowed me to include all of their libraries in my compiler, so
- that I didn't have to do libraries of my own. That would be handy!
-
-
- Dave Halliwell
- Department of Geography
- University of Alberta
- Edmonton, Alberta
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