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Subject: Re: RE:Pascal on Mac
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Date: 30 Mar 91 05:19:54 GMT
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In article <26412@adm.brl.mil>, A1.RJS@isumvs.iastate.edu ( Ricardo Salvador) writes...
>eldred@rrunner.jpl.nasa.gov "Dan Eldred" says:
> 
>>>>>If no turbo pascal on the mac, then what pascal do people use on
>>>>the Mac?
>> 
>> Think Pascal is a great compiler.  OOP
>support and a huge library of objects for GUI stuff are very nice
>(whole thing occupies 4.5 Mb on hard disk, but the compiler itself
>only takes up about 0.5 Mb.)  Also, the associated on-line tutorial
>(Just Enough Pascal) is a very good way to learn the system if one
>has some programming experience already.
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>Ricardo Salvador - Iowa State University of Science and Technology -
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I wholeheartedly endorse Ricardo's recommendation.  Symantec's Think Pascal 3.0 
is almost a Mac industry standard.  It's super-fast, has a great debugger, 
object-oriented support, a huge class library for implementing the user 
interface, etc.

I can't recommend it enough.  This will probably evoke some flames from the DOS 
users, but I've seen Turbo Pascal on DOS and I don't think it's as fast on a 
comprable machine, I don't think it's debugging tools are as good, and overall, 
I just don't think it's as elegant.  Of course if you've got a Mac, all this is 
irrelevant.

Wade Williams
WadeW@ducvax.auburn.edu