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From: sec@berlin.acss.umn.edu (Stephen E. Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Lightspeed/Just Enough/ MacPascal...
Message-ID: <259@berlin.acss.umn.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 88 01:21:59 GMT
References: <6211@netnews.upenn.edu>
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In article <6211@netnews.upenn.edu>, bell@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Mike Bell) writes:
>   I have heard that Just Enough Pascal is a rehashing of MacPascal, which 
> Think bought back from Apple this year. Is there going to be any kind of trade 
> in offered to those of us who bought MacPascal , and are now stuck with a
> useless interpreter ? The official word I got from Apple is that they
> are "no longer supporting it."  It did serve a purpose -- you couldn't beat
> it for teaching intro Pascal, because you didnt have to worry about explaining
> projects, compiling, linking, etc......

Here at the University of Minnesota we completely phased out both TML Pascal
and MacPascal in favor of Borland's Turbo Pascal.  We found Turbo was
even easier to use and explain than MacPascal for teaching, and since
it is a compiler, it is useful for developing "real" applications.
Although it doesn't have the capabilities of MPW, Turbo serves most of
our users just fine.
 
Moreover, I prefer to develop most Mac applications in Turbo, where the
compile/debug cycle is much quicker than MPW, then convert them
over to MPW for the final touches, if necessary.
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