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From: 252u3129@fergvax.unl.edu (Mike Gleason)
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Subject: Re: Think Pascal Wishes...?
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Date: 25 Sep 90 00:25:36 GMT
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I'm very impressed that a company would actually go out and ask for
suggestions!  Apple, Microsoft, ... take note!

I've got version 2.0, so I don't know if any of my suggestions are
already in there.  (It was between upgrading to TP v3 or Tuition...)

Something I think is pretty important is that you should be able to
choose to save a compiled resource directly into another file.  It's a
ROYAL pain having to go into ResEdit zillions of times to try out a new
XCMD, etc.  This goes for Think C too!  An excellent example of this can
be found in Farallon's SoundEdit.  Very slick, uses Standard File, uh,
slickly.

Another thing I hate is having to open a non-pascal text file and having
the pretty-printer try and format it and making it un-readable.  Howz
about having a 'Open plain text file' command?

And, is an inline assembler possible?  I guess you've got the inline
keyword where you could enter in machine-language gibberish, but it
would be cool if you could put in asm junk like you can in Think C.

Oh, uh, lowering the upgrade price would be nice too... $75 is kinda
steep on a student's income ;-)

Thanks for listening,
-- mike gleason


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 * Mike Gleason                                      252u3129@fergvax.unl.edu
 * "Don't you f*ckin' look at me!" -- D. Hopper       cosc006@unlcdc2.unl.edu