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From: glcowin@uokmax.UUCP (Greogory Linn Cowin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal,comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Turbo Pascal 4.0 (I've got my copy)
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Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 14:16:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  6 14:16:44 1987
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        Borland must be shipping, because I received my copy of
        Turbo Pascal 4.0, today (Friday, November 6, 1987).
 
        Things that are apparent (after about five mintues) about
	4.0 are following:
 
             At the user's point of view, it feels a lot
             like Turbo C, except many more features.
 
             It is very fast (what else would you expect).

             It allows "units" consisting of an interface and
	     an implemenation--that's all that I noticed right
	     away (there will probably be a lot of Modula-2
	     programmers that will switch over--sorry, Logitech).
	     
             It comes with a utility that supposedly converts
             Turbo Pascal 3.0 to Turbo Pascal 4.0 (I sure that
             this will be a concern to all 3.0 users).
 
             The documentation is much larger and seems to be
             organized quite well (it will be harder to copy,
             because the face of the manual is a little
             larger).
 
 
        It really looks great, so be a little more positive about
        it.  I have only had my copy for about 10 minutes, so this
	is only a quick first impression.  I will post again once
	I learn more, I sure that many others will beat me to it.

        One safe prediction:
	     There will be many superlative products produced
	     using Turbo Pascal 4.0.
	      
        By the way, this article was created using the Turbo
        Editor (feels good).
 
        It was difficult to stop peruzing the manual to write this,
	although I just wanted to share some of my enthusiasm with
	you.
	
	
        Greg Cowin (Zealous CS Student)