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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: THINK Pascal 3.0 Press Re
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Date: 22 Mar 90 13:40:31 GMT
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In article <439@fornax.UUCP> mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald) writes:
>
>(Bunch of stuff about the THINK class browser deleted)
>
>Not wanting you to give away company secrets, Rich (:-) ) but can you
>give us C users an idea of when the equivalent upgrades might be made
>to THINK C?

	Sorry, I can't.

>when Pascal's typing proved too restrictive.)  Could Symantec consider
>a further discount for us people who would like to have both environments,
>but will not do so if they have to pay full price on both?

	I can pass that on...

>As a final note, one of the problems I remember with the last release
>of THINK Pascal was that, in spite of promised object support, the
>documentation was just not satisfactory to support this claim.  (In spite
>of all the work I'm sure Symantec did put in on it.)  If my memory is
>correct (and correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a long time since I've
>even looked at the Pascal), this also strikes me as cause for complaint--
>Symantec should not be charging that steep of an upgrade price to deliver
>to users a feature they claimed for a previous version, when that previous
>version, for most practical uses, did not support said feature.

	The documentation was somewhat weak on Object Pascal, but nevertheless,
object Pascal was supported - the same object Pascal which is supported in
MPW.

	What is new in 3.0 is the fact that the more commonly used MPW Pascal
extensions are supported, and some architectural changes were made in the
representation of classes and methods, both towards the end of supporting
MacApp.

R.


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