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