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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: TP platforms wishful thinking (Was Re: TP under Windows 3.0)
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.072324.4659@uwasa.fi>
Date: 21 Dec 90 07:23:24 GMT
References: <25310@adm.brl.mil> <1990Dec20.190116.18951@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <1990Dec20.190116.18951@watmath.waterloo.edu> nmouawad@watmath.waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad) writes:
>In article <25310@adm.brl.mil> chaudhury@physics.ucla.edu (CHAUDHURY, SHILADITYA) writes:
>>
>[Part deleted]
>>---> Yes, there will be a TP for Windows?
>>
... part deleted ...
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>I hope that (a) Windows will not be the only OTHER environment
>under which TP will run, that is I would like to see a version
... part deleted listing different platforms ...
>How's about that for a Vision ?
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I'll heartily second to this wish.  Unix (we have a Sun 4 with BSD)
has a useless (read = standard) pascal.  I would welcome TP
flexibility as a programming tool for practical programs instead of
a weirdo puritanist teaching tool.  (If this statement feels
provocative, contrary to my usual practice (I hope) this time it is
deliberate).  It is a real pity that for portabilily MsDos <-> Unix
C is the only working choice.  (Please, refrain from flames about C
vs Pascal, else feel free :-). 

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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