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From: ma183say@sdcc3.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal Rumor
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Date: Sat, 18-Apr-87 20:59:29 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 18 20:59:29 1987
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Reply-To: ma183say@sdcc3.ucsd.edu.UUCP (Lee Fountain)
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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Keywords: Pascal, Kahn, looks grim


  I remember reading somewhere that Commodore somehow p o'd Borland
  and even though they had already run a full page ad (T-Pascal) in AmigaWorld,
  they decided not to produce it.  I called them a year or so ago
  about T-Pascal, they said that they were working on it and it
  would be out that summer.  That was apparently before the p o.

  So what did I do? I bought the successor to Pascal, Modula-2, and
  won't go back to Pascal (yuk, how primitive).

  If you are not comfortable with or cannot afford C, I highly
  recommend Modula-2 from TDI.  The transition from Pascal to M2 is
  simple, and you'll quickly realize the improvements.  The latest
  version even has an error-editor similar to T-Pascal (places the
  cursor at the error location, identifies the error).  Also,
  execution time is supposedly faster then either of the two latest
  versions of C; I'd be glad to test that claim...

  You will still have to learn C if you wish to write any serious
  code for the Amiga as all of the examples are written in C (->RKM),
  barring the ones that come with M2.

  John
  7OHN

  (yeah, it's not Lee, obviously)