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From: g556871349ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (0040;0000023433;0;745;352;)
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Subject: Re: Borland (was Calc programs)
Keywords: User Hostile
Message-ID: <5965@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 89 20:50:52 GMT
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Reply-To: g556871349ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Colin Ong)
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In article <5636@umd5.umd.edu> jg108@umd5.umd.edu (Martin Walser) writes:
i<<stuff deleted about pros and cons of Turbo Pascal>>

I hope this doesn't turn into a mountain because it's come up so many times
before. So some people dislike TP. I have absolutely no problems with it
because it is reliable and easy to move stuff from the Unix computers. Most
of all, I do actively promote it in the class I teach so that I don't have to
answer questions specific to the compiler because anyone who has taken a
Pascal class should be able to get cracking in Turbo Pascal at the gun. I don't
think I could do that with the other compilers and I wouldn't, since I'm paid
to teach science (this class about computer chemical models) and not
programming. I don't use the mainframe because there is only one modem in the
lab that I'm designated to. With TP Educational Discounts, each student can
get their own compiler and the manual which incidentally, I feel is adequate.
The Unimover doesn't make sense at first, and RMaker isn't particlularly well
documented in the TP manual. So all I'm trying to point out is that TP has its
place and I imagine the educational arena is a fairly large one.

Colin Ong
Dept. LAWR
UC Davis