Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!hsdndev!dartvax!mars!nic!news.cs.brandeis.edu!news!phils From: phils@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Phil Shapiro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Think Pascal/Think C/System 7 Message-ID: Date: 13 May 91 18:39:40 GMT References: <53400@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cs.brandeis.edu Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu's message of 13 May 91 04:12:06 GMT In article <53400@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu writes: Just found the announcement for the Think Pascal 3.02 updater [ on sumex /info-mac/lang/think-pascal-302-updater.hqx, along with a similar updater for Think C 4.05 ]. The accompanying text in the digest posting notes that the 3.02 updater makes Think Pascal "90%" 7.0 compatible, but says nothing about Think C. Pascal supposedly won't work with VM or 32-bit mode. The question: which development system works better under 7.0? Will they both work eventually, or should people starting out go with Think C? Thanks, Bill (johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu) Think C works just as well as Think Pascal (or just as bad, depending on how you look at it). Neither support 32 bit mode, and neither work with System 7 VM. There will be new versions of both products that will run under 32 and 24 bit modes, with (and without) VM, and that will let developers write applications that use all of the new System 7 features. At this point, Symantec hasn't made any announcements as to how these versions will be distributed, and what (if any) the charge will be. -phil -- Phil Shapiro Technical Support Analyst Language Products Group Symantec Corporation Internet: phils@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu