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From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Borland's Object-Oriented Pascal--is it worth it?
Keywords: borland pascal object oriented
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Date: 20 Jun 89 06:01:52 GMT
References: <2048@orion.cf.uci.edu> <5534@rpi.edu> <267@maytag.waterloo.edu>
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In article <267@maytag.waterloo.edu> dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
>One change that seems to be a welcome relief is that (at last) the code
>generator for Extended math seems to make efficient use of the coprocessor
>stack.  It used to be that an expression like
>
>  a := b+c+d+e+f+g+h+i+j+k+l;
>
>would overflow the stack if all the variables were extended; this bug has
>thankfully been fixed now.  For anyone translating numerical routines written
>in Fortran, this alone would be worth the price of the upgrade.

This is beside the subjects of this area, but isn't it truly amazing
how we users have become conditinioned to pay for the corrections of
the bugs in the programs we have puchased.  Borland makes very good
products, and this is not a reflection on them, but the attitude has
really become ingrained in us.

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