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From: schanck@dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu (Christopher Schanck)
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Pascal : why does it still exist ?
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Date: 1 Feb 89 09:16:02 GMT
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In article <2528@nunki.usc.edu> sawant@nunki.usc.edu () writes:
>
>In the domain of Pascal implementations, Turbo Pascal is really head
>and shoulders ahead of the competition (evidenced by the sheer lack of
>competition ?).  How and why does Microsoft keep churning out newer
>versions (each of them ponderous and painful) of Microsoft Pascal ?
>
>Is there any large group of people who would actually prefer MSP ?
>
>	-ajay

I don't prefer MSP, that is for sure, but up until TP4.0, MSP was your
only option for truly large programs, since TP was limited to the
.COM format. 'Course, who would want to code large programs in MSP, anyway?

Chris

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