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From: daveg@near.cs.caltech.edu (Dave Gillespie)
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Subject: Re: Suggestion for TP on Other Computers
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Date: 16 Nov 89 05:28:47 GMT
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In article <36445@apple.Apple.COM> lins@Apple.COM (Chuck Lins) writes:
>Actually, Borland did move TP to the Mac. Big-time flop...

I was hired a while back by a small CAD company to port their Turbo Pascal
application to the Mac.  We originally planned to use Turbo-for-the-Mac but
had to give up on it because a) it was incredibly buggy and b) it actually
compiled a different dialect of Pascal than the PC version!  I think if
Borland had created a _real_ Turbo Pascal for the Mac, it would not have
flopped at all.  We certainly needed it.

Our eventual solution was to translate the whole thing into C, so that it
would be portable across machines.  That's how the Pascal to C translator
I just posted about learned Turbo Pascal...

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