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From: dnelson@ddsw1.UUCP (Douglas Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Has TP4.0 development system been released?
Message-ID: <477@ddsw1.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 88 21:05:56 GMT
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Wow, another Borland xDfanatic!  Here at work I have recently purchased
Borland's spreadsheet "Quattro."  Excellent product, with that Borland 
"feel" that all the other products have.  On of the many good things about
it is that it has two modes.  One is the Borland Quattro mode, where there
are enhanced commands, then there is the 1-2-3 mode, and you can imagine
what popular spreadsheet that mimics.  The advantage to this is that after
training 50% of our office personal with Lotus, we need not un-learn them
the commands that they had just been taught, since the menus appear and 
work identically to what they were taught when running Quattro in the 1-2-3
mode.

I am hot to pick up Turbo C 1.5, I have 1.0, which was great, nice programming
environment, but I have found several bugs in it, and it is also somewhat
limited in it's graphic/screen control ability.  Still a winner at my desk 
though.

Turbo Pascal is undoubtedly the standard on the MS-Dos machines for Pascal.

Apparently the original copies of Turbo Pascal 4.0 were recalled, due to
some type of bug that turned out to be somewhat major.

I sincerely like Borland products, due to them being comfortable for the
first time user as well as the more seasoned.  I have had only a little 
contact with their customer service, and what little I had was excellent.

Glad to see some other enthusiasm towards them.


							-Doug

Douglas Nelson
oddjob!gargoyle!ddsw1!dnelson@hao.ucar.edu

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