pn@sri-unix (10/21/82)
Here is a quote to start this newsgroup off: from "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics", by W. W. Rouse Ball, fourth edition published in 1908. PASCAL. Among the contemporaries of Descartes none displayed greater natural genius than Pascal, but his mathematical reputation rests more on what he might have done than on what he actually effected, as during a considerable part of his life he deemed it his duty to devote his whole time to religious exercises. (brought to my attention by Tom Crawford) Phil Ngai ...ucbvax!amd70!pn
cmt@tybalt.caltech.edu (Rich Seigel c/o Etoyoc) (11/09/86)
[ EAT ME RAW!!! Line Eater!! ] [ Posting for a friend.... Enjoy! ] This is in response to Peter Wisnovsky's post dated Nov. 7... I have heard that Think is working on the Object Pascal extensions to Lightspeed Pascal, as well as an LSP-compatible version of MacApp. I can't confirm that; does anyone else have a comment? Perhaps I should call Think up and ask them.... TML Pascal 2.0 does not come with MacApp. It comes with the Object Pascal extensions built in, but a TML-Compatible MacApp was not available. I understand that that too will soon be available. I would probably look for the next version of Lightspeed to have some bug fixes, and just maybe Object Pascal will be in there too... I understand that Object Pascal can really slow down a compiler. A friend uses MPW (the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, from Apple) at work, and he says that the regular Pascal compiles about as fast as TML, but the Object Pascal code compiles much more slowly... Of course, with LSP, even 3000 lines a minute is slow, so the speed difference may not be as much of an irritation. A side note... I understand that MPW really loses as far as turnaround time goes. Yet another friend, who has used MPW, prefers LightspeedC, simply because it's (literally) a hundred times faster than MPW, and the same goes for LSP -- it's two orders of magnitude faster at compilation/link/launch time than TML is... --Rich --BTW, I have no affiliation with Think Technologies, other than as a satisfied user. rs4u#@andrew.cmu.edu