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From: czychi@ethz.UUCP (Gary Czychi)
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Subject: Re: Think Pascal Wishes...?
Message-ID: <6139@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 90 08:31:50 GMT
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Reply-To: czychi@bernina.UUCP (Gary Czychi)
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In article <4251@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) writes:
>Does anyone have any wishes for THINK Pascal? Editor, Compiler, Debugger
>feature requests? Annoyances? Any sort of commentary?
>
> Rich Siegel   Software Engineer       Symantec Languages Group
> Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu    UUCP: ..harvard!endor!siegel


Great! The best programming environment in the world will even get better!
Thanks a lot for the superb TP and your devotion, Rich.

My favorites would be:

1) #> Pascal's brackets, the comments, would be much nicer if they didn't
   #> have to be one line apiece!
I'll second that. It's quite difficult to write (and adjust) several lines
of comment. And I write lots of comments.


2) Is it somehow possible to have several statements on one line? In my
current project I have hundreds of short assignments in several units. And
it's quite annoying to scroll to the code I want, because only one small
column of code takes up several pages.
Don't get me wrong, I like the one-statement-per-line approach, *but* there
should be an exception to that rule.


3) Can you somehow save the the window locations of all units? And the Text
and Drawing windows as well? I, for instance have all the 'help' windows on
my small SE screen and the code windows on my 13" screen.


4) Please, please enhance the Object Oriented Programming Manual. It's not
bad, it's only far to short! I have more questions now than I had before I
read it (very carefully).
And please give us a list of books which deal with the TCL. I want to learn
it, but not by trial and error...
Last but not least, why don't you bring out a tutorial like JEP for the TCL?
This is what I really need. And I would love to be a tester for it...


That's my $0.02. Thank's a lot for the opportunity.


Gary


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