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From: Lou@cup.portal.com (William Joseph Marriott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Borland Support (cont'd)
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Date: 4 Dec 88 13:37:20 GMT
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(sorry, i accidently and prematurely transmitted the first half of this post)
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I think Turbo is best for what _I_ bought if for originally: I had a one-drive
Mac Plus and wanted a system to develop programs for my Pascal course in 
college. The program had a very easy to use "terminal" interface and was 
so similar to standard pascal in that regard I could get away with not using
the university mainframe for my assignments. Additionally, I could work very
nicely with one drive and 1 Mb of RAM... Everything I needed fit.

I still recommend Turbo for people who are writing un-maclike programs, or
learning Pascal. But I would not stake the company on marketing a program 
written in Turbo. Not saying that Borland is a bad company; it's just that 
I don't think they know what they're going to do about this product. The bigge
impact that Turbo Pascal for the Mac may have had is on the PC version of the
compiler, which was enhanced with many of the Mac features.