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From: drc@dbase.UUCP (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Pascal on Mac
Summary: LSP not MF compatible either
Message-ID: <302@dbase.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 88 19:44:16 GMT
References: <111900018@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <4860004@hpiacla.HP.COM>
Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale Cal.
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I agree with you re the quality of Rich's support; however, you should be made
aware that LSP is NOT MultiFinder compatible either.  It suffers a severe crash if you try to use it in that environment.  Having dealt with both companies, I
tend to prefer Think's upgrade policy with regard to maintenance releases, but
I don't know what impact their acquisition by Symantec will make to these
policies.  When I asked the folks at Borland about the MF incompatibility, I
got the response that they were working on it (the same answer I got from the
authors of LSP).

Under MF, I cannot see any reason to use LSP over Turbo since its major (indeed
only) advantage is the source-level debugging and that is gone.  If you're
always going to be creating a disk file and running from there, I think Turbo
comes out way ahead because you don't need to deal with that (expletive-deleted)
editor in LSP.

Dennis Cohen
(The above are my opinions)
Ashton-Tate Glendale Development Center
dBASE Mac Development Team