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From: marcos@caus-dp.UUCP (Marcos R. Della)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Borlands new magazine
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Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 11:35:11 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 13 11:35:11 1987
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Keywords: Turbo Technix

Well, I just got my copy of the new Borland magazine that they are
sending to all registered users. Its called Turbo Technix and the
cover price is $10.00 for the bi-monthly publication.

This issue they talk about turbo pascal 4.0, they show pictures, and
give you information on converting programs from 3.0 to 4.0. From what
I've read, there is going to be a definate conversion process which will
prevent portability between the 3.0 and 4.0 versions. For some of us who
distribute source code with our work, this is going to cause some
problems as 4.0 starts poliferating around the world to replace 3.0.

It definatly looks alot better and the thing that they seem to be
pushing is the 'units' system where procedures can be linked and
included in your code without re-compiling each unit every time
you want to put a package together.

There are several new types that are defined (longint, shortint, etc...)
and new methods of using them. There are near and far procedures, interrupt
systems, new devices and the removal of old, etc. They also included
two libraries called turbo3 and graph3 to allow you to attempt to run
your 3.0 programs as is with just the inclusion of a unit statment at
the beginning of your program. I haven't seen it yet, but I hope that
there is an #ifdef type of statment using the {} so that you can put
these in the 3.0 programs that will only be interperted during 4.0
compilation...

Well, the magazine has lots of other articles covering turboc, prolog,
basic, and a series of departments... As I look more closely to the
magazine, I'll post a review of what I think. Others out there in the
world should have gotten their copies by now also and can help comment
on the thing...

Marcos R. Della