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From: c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU (Alex Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Borland (was Calc programs)
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Date: 17 Nov 89 09:56:07 GMT
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In article <12542856940.20.B.BSK@Macbeth.Stanford.EDU> B.BSK@MACBETH.STANFORD.EDU (Brian Keller) writes:
>In article <5182@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
>writes:
>> I would go further and suggest that any Borland product for the Mac is
>> unlikely to be worthwhile.  Certainly Turbo Pascal is not

>What's wrong with Turbo Pascal?  I use it for all kinds of programming from
>simulations to full Mac style interfaces.  Am I missing something?  I love
>the fast compile time and it's pretty good at recovering from fairly serious
>crashes through macsbug.  So far it's been compatible with every system
>update I've installed.  What's the problem?

>Brian Keller

The problem probably has something to do with the fact that
Borland has pulled out of the Macintosh market, and isn't
supporting any of their Macintosh products any more. This
includes Turbo Pascal as well as Sidekick Plus and Reflex.

This happened quite a while ago.

--- Alex
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