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From: andrew@resam.dk (Leif Andrew Rump)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal history
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.084634.21730@resam.dk>
Date: 11 Feb 91 08:46:34 GMT
References: <1991Feb6.001222.15320@IRO.UMontreal.CA> <27710002@hpldsla.sid.hp.com>
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In <27710002@hpldsla.sid.hp.com> dconway@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (Dan Conway) writes:
>                          I read an article in Dr. Dobb's a few years ago that
>mentioned that the original compiler was written by a consulting firm in
>Denmark.

NOTE: This may be folklore or just my bad decaying (core) memory  :-)

Anders Heiselberg (sp?) (now working for Borland International) created
PolyPascal in Denmark as an exam project. Evil tongues say that Turbo=
Pascal was PolyPascal with a menu system instead of a (better) command=
line interface. PolyPascal and TurboPascal co-existed for a long time
(PP didn't follow TP in the race of introducing new (buggy) procedures
and functions - instead PolyData(?) created files like database manager
that could be included in the same spirit as unit's today).

Development on PP stopped when TP4 was introduced. I think Anders was
brought to the states at that time and he (I don't know if he is the
one that should receive the credits?!?) introduced the lovely unit
idea and removed all the bugs from TP - Thanks!

Leif Andrew


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