bk19+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bradley D. Keister) (03/25/91)
BORLAND ANNOUNCES TURBO PASCAL FOR WINDOWS
Brings Windows Within Every Programmer's Reach
Major Features of Turbo Pascal for Windows
* ObjectWindows reduces the amount of Windows code required by
providing predefined objects for windows, menus, dialogs,
controls, data management and more.
* Windows Integrated Development Environment enables the
programmer to create, edit, compile and run programs all
from within the Windows environment.
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The two features above are apparently *not* contained in BC++.
Absence of the second feature amounts to a time nuisance, but absence
of the first represents a body of code that I would have to write
myself or else buy from a third party. The natural question is,
therefore, what is the time schedule for these features appearing in
BC++? Since the code already exists in TP, it is a matter of
conversion to BC++, and not starting from scratch. Is this going to
be another upgrade one or two months from now? I've now seen three
product announcements in the past few months (TP 6.0, BC++ and TP for
Windows). Each one of these has had individual features that I've
wanted, though it's the combination (BC++ with the two features above)
that interests me the most, and I don't have the funds to buy now,
only to have to pay for an upgrade a few weeks later.
Brad Keister
Department of Physics
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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