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From: ear@duke.UUCP (Eric A. Raymond)
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Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal - The Next Version!  What? How much? When?
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Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 01:24:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  5 01:24:52 1986
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Summary: Rumors of new compilers for Pascal, C, and Modula-II

In article <9779@ritcv.UUCP> iav1917@ritcv.UUCP (alan i. vymetalik) writes:
>
>   I am interested in finding out any information anyone knows
>   regarding the upcoming release of Borland's Turbo Pascal V4.0.

    
    I've heard rumors that Borland was developing new compilers for C, 
    and Modula-II as well as Pascal.  I first heard this about the end 
    last summer.  More recently, (with the announcement of Turbo Prolog)
    I've heard that these compilers were put on the backburner to allow
    the release of the Prolog system.  (I'm not sure whether this was due
    a reorganization of manpower or (more likely) a marketing ploy to
    prevent oversaturation of the market (too many products introduced 
    at one time) - I've heard rumors that release of a new sidekick was
    put off for exactly this latter reason)  


    As far as I can remember, the new compilers should cover most of 
    your wishes (i.e. optimization, OBJ files, large memory models - 
    not sure about large file I/O but if there is .OBJ support you can 
    build your own routines and link them in.)  It seems that all of
    the new compilers share the same core program (i.e. the interface
    used in Prolog with the multiple windows).


    What I would like to know is:
     
      Have the people at Borland included a program developmenmt
      environment to their compilers OR at least allow compilation
      to be invoked at the DOS command prompt level like most other
      compilers (i.e. A> turbo program1)?
       |
       |----> Read this paragraph as allows a "MAKE" facility


    Also, can anyone backup (or refute) these rumors?









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Eric A. Raymond                                   UUCP: ...decvax!mcnc!duke!ear