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I have read startling things re Turbo Pascal from Borland Int'l:
 o 4000 lines/minute compilation
 o Reasonably ISO conformant
 o Takes up 28K (compiler, editor, the lot)

OK, now what's the trade-off here? 28K (bytes?) seems incredible.
A good syntax-scanner for Pascal would take up more than that,
never mind a Wordstar style editor, code-generator, and the
rest lumped in as well.  (It must be overlayed, but no one has
mentioned this so far.)

What is produced? A CMD file? A REL file?  What of linking in
separately developed routines?  Relocatable libraries?  Does
the edit-buffer page to disk?  What is the executable size
of the following program?

	program tiny;
	begin
	end.

I'm hunting for a good reason *not* to buy Turbo.  Or has
Compiler Utopia arrived?
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