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From: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal & PopUp Menus
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.192322.22179@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 9 Nov 90 19:23:22 GMT
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chou@cs.washington.edu (Pai Chou) writes:

>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?

  I'd say so...  You have to remember that Borland has basically dropped 
all Mac development for the past two years - although they haven't told anyone,
they are supposedly going to formally announce their withdrawal from the
Mac market very soon.

  That means that Turbo lacks all the new interfaces/libraries to the neat
things Apple has stuck in the System over the past two years (like
32-bit QD, Midi manager, all of the new System 7 stuff etc).

  If you're programming simple command-line type interfaces, you're probably
fine with Turbo.  Anything more than that, and Think is the only way to go.

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