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Subject: Re: Turbo vs. LSP (was Re:Turbo Pascal & PopUp Menus
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Date: 9 Nov 90 22:56:54 GMT
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In article 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?
> 
> Pai Chou
> chou@june.cs.washington.edu

I doubt it, but I too prefer Lightspeed to Turbo.  I began with Turbo on the
Mac, but when I found LSP, I was a full convert.
As per baggage files (?), are your referring to the interface files or the
libraries?  As far as units go, I HAVE to segment my code up into units since
it would exceed the 32K Pascal limit.  With Turbo, I found the creation of
and inclusion of units to be confusing.
LSP has a built in editor, and a lot of other useful debugging features.  I
imagine this has something to do with it's size.  Looking back, Turbo strikes
me now as more of an assembly compiler hacked out as a grad project.  It's
rawness and bare-bones attitude perhaps appeals to you.  As a beginner, it
intimidated me.  If you admire a compiler from a purely functional standpoint
alone, I can see how Turbo has that "gouge & hand lathe" appeal.  LSP is
perhaps the drillpress and "Skil" saw - all the latest fancy features, but
maybe distancing the programmer a degree from the compiling.