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From: chou@cs.washington.edu (Pai Chou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal & PopUp Menus
Message-ID: <13685@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 8 Nov 90 23:54:52 GMT
References: <414@ub.d.umn.edu> <1363@radius.com>
Reply-To: chou@june.cs.washington.edu (Pai Chou)
Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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In article <1363@radius.com> lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke) writes:
>mfort@ub.d.umn.edu (Michael Fort) writes:
>Well, I still stick to my main point - you should upgrade.  I feel qualified
>to recommend this as I spent my hard-earned cash (while finishing college) on
>Turbo Pascal (big mistake) and the upgrade, too (bigger mistake), and finally
>on THINK Pascal (best programming environment I ever bought!).  I've since
>upgraded from THINK Pascal 2.0 to 3.0, and to 3.01 - Symantec releases small
>updates periodically to fix little things, but (to date) are free and are
>widely distributed electronically.  Which system would YOU rather program in?

That's funny, I have just the opposite experience.  I started with
Turbo, but everybody told me how wonderful THINK Pascal was, so I
bought it.  I hardly used it.  I prefer the Turbo setup: one single
compiler and no other baggage files (units) messing up my directory.
Its size is also amazingly small.  I find myself getting a lot more
work done with Turbo than with THINK.  Well, it's just my personal
experience.  Am I the only one that prefers Turbo over THINK?

Pai Chou
chou@june.cs.washington.edu