glcowin@uokmax.UUCP (Greogory Linn Cowin) (11/06/87)
Borland must be shipping, because I received my copy of
Turbo Pascal 4.0, today (Friday, November 6, 1987).
Things that are apparent (after about five mintues) about
4.0 are following:
At the user's point of view, it feels a lot
like Turbo C, except many more features.
It is very fast (what else would you expect).
It allows "units" consisting of an interface and
an implemenation--that's all that I noticed right
away (there will probably be a lot of Modula-2
programmers that will switch over--sorry, Logitech).
It comes with a utility that supposedly converts
Turbo Pascal 3.0 to Turbo Pascal 4.0 (I sure that
this will be a concern to all 3.0 users).
The documentation is much larger and seems to be
organized quite well (it will be harder to copy,
because the face of the manual is a little
larger).
It really looks great, so be a little more positive about
it. I have only had my copy for about 10 minutes, so this
is only a quick first impression. I will post again once
I learn more, I sure that many others will beat me to it.
One safe prediction:
There will be many superlative products produced
using Turbo Pascal 4.0.
By the way, this article was created using the Turbo
Editor (feels good).
It was difficult to stop peruzing the manual to write this,
although I just wanted to share some of my enthusiasm with
you.
Greg Cowin (Zealous CS Student)
ralphw@IUS2.CS.CMU.EDU (Ralph Hyre) (11/07/87)
In article <841@uokmax.UUCP> glcowin@uokmax.UUCP () writes: > It allows "units" consisting of an interface and > an implemenation--that's all that I noticed right > away (there will probably be a lot of Modula-2 > programmers that will switch over--sorry, Logitech). This sounds more like UCSD Pascal systems than Modula-2. Unless TP 4.0 provides for similar multitasking capabilities, I don't see that many Modula-2 programmers switching. Of course, third-party multitasking additions may change this. -- - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Internet: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu Phone:(412)268-{2847,3275} CMU-{BUGS,DARK} Amateur Packet Radio: N3FGW@W2XO, or c/o W3VC, CMU Radio Club, Pittsburgh, PA