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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
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Subject: Re: MPW Pascal
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Date: 2 Feb 89 23:24:51 GMT
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In article <9048@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, fleabag@athena.mit.edu (Jeff Bellsey) writes:
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> 
> could someone please help me decipher the true meaning of "MPW"? I am 

In the dark, dim, misty past, it stood for "Macintosh Programmer's
Work{shop|bench}.

> new at this programming game, and I was fully prepared to go out and buy
> a copy of Turbo Pascal. Why would anyone pay $400 for a pascal compiler?

Because there's more to the MPW stuff than just the compiler.  On the
other hand, maybe they *do* charge $400 for just the compiler...I haven't
looked in a long time.

In any case, there are tools provided under the MPW banner for supporting
the whole programming process, something like the programmer's tools
supported under U*nix systems.  Certainly a lot more than Borland gives
you with Turbo Pascal.  If you're only doing small programs, TP is
likely enough, but if it's a major project, ewspecially if more than one
person is involved, you'll want more help.

(I'm only using TP myself, for the moment, btw.)