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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: The case for Borland's Turbo Pascal
Message-ID: <555@argus.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Oct-86 18:08:25 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 26 18:08:25 1986
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In article <691@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
> In article <631@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes:
> >
> >          Borland's Turbo Pascal should probably be  the "standard"
> >          programming language for 80 percent of the programming which gets
> >          done (outside of professional  software  houses  such  as Ashton-
> >          Tate) on today's XTs and ATs etc.
> 
> Turbo Pascal is a fine low priced system for playing around with programming.
> It is no more than this, however.  I have to reply to an aritcle calling for it
> as a standard.

The biggest selling products have a nasty habbit of becoming defacto
standards.  Just look at the IBM-PC, 5.25 inch disk drive, Shurgart (sp)
disk drive interface, IEEE 488 (was HP GPIB), ANSI terminal (was VT100),
etc.  Just because something is not produced from a committee of people
does not mean it cannot effectively become a standard.

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