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From: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal newsgroup
Message-ID: <8759@claris.com>
Date: 10 Feb 89 14:48:15 GMT
References: <8902092017.AA05288@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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In article <8902092017.AA05288@jade.berkeley.edu> RWMIRA01@ULKYVX.BITNET (Rob Miracle) writes:
>In Message <967@taurus.BITNET>, zifrony@TAURUS.BITNET writes:
...
>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.
>

If the discussion pertains to the generic subject of Pascal programming
using the Turbo dialect, that should be fine.  I, personnally, am getting
annoyed with having to hit the "n" key so much to skip over the
interminable discussions of using Turbo to interface to the DOS interrupts
and other such PC-specific nonsense.  There are a lot of Pascal programmers
using the Macintosh and we keep our Mac-specific discussions in comp.sys.
mac.programming like we are supposed to, why can't Turbo on the PC programmers
do the same?

Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
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Disclaimer:  Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!