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From: RWMIRA01@ULKYVX.BITNET (Rob Miracle)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: RE: Turbo Pascal newsgroup
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Date: 9 Feb 89 16:15:00 GMT
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In Message <967@taurus.BITNET>, zifrony@TAURUS.BITNET writes:

>I skim sometimes through the "comp.lang.pascal" newsgroup, and I find that
>most messages refer to the Turbo Pascal environment.
>As this newgroup should be dealing with the language Pascal, and not with
>a specific implementation of it, I suggest forming a new newsgroup to deal
>with matters concerning Borland's Turbo Pascal.
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Well, this same discussion is going on in comp.lang.c at this moment over
PC Specific compilers.  This group is to discuss the language of Pascal.
Turbo Pascal is Pascal and this is one of the places to discuss it.

There are several concerns here.  First, traffic in this group is not that
great. (Though I don't know if we get everything or not).  Secondly, the IBM
specific stuff should be talked about in comp.sys.ibm.pc, however, it is on
the other hand overrun with messages.  Turbo Pascal is one of the most
popular implementations of Pascal around.  It is only logical that there be
a lot of discussion about it.  And where do Pascal programmers read?
comp.lang.pascal.  I read both comp.sys.ibm.pc and comp.lang.pascal and I
use Turbo Pascal.  I personally enjoy the discussions in comp.lang.pascal
better than having to weed through c.s.i.p.



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