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From: dma@nova.stanford.edu (Domingo A. Mihovilovic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal vs. C
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Date: 20 Sep 90 16:41:53 GMT
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Yes!, Turbo Pascal is the best system to develop programs today. It has
all extensions and capabilities you will need ( from the lowest level to
objects ).
It is a very optimized and very fast compiler. I got recently Turbo C++.
Even though it is very fast among the C compilers it is more than 20
times slower than Turbo Pascal. 

	Another good point of TP is that it has an integrated environment with
which you can get work done very quickly (turbo C has also a very good
environment). Some other compilers claim to have integrated environments
but they are useless.
As an example in the PWB (Programmer's Workbench) of Microsoft C 6.0. To do

	- run the PWB and load the program.
	- compile the program.
	- execute the program from the PWB.
	- return to PWB.

takes 3 minutes with the simplest program you can write

#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
printf("hello World!\n") ;
}

What kind of integrated environment is this ?? 

Just to compile the program takes 60 seconds !!!

In Turbo Pascal it takes 2 seconds to compile a more than 1400 line
program ( BGIDEMO.PAS, a graphics demo that comes with the system).

All times were measured in a 386sx machine and DOS 3.3


	
	The only reason to use something different would be portability to some
other platform, but is you are interested only in the IBM PC TPascal 5.5
is the best choice.

Domingo Mihovilovic A.
dma@nova.stanford.edu