Turbo Pascal: Any bad news?

Thread View: net.lang.pascal

1 messages

[T] Back to Threads [V] Tree View [G] Group Articles

1 total messages Started by Scott Plunkett Thu, 08 Mar 1984 17:23

#69

Author: Scott Plunkett
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 1984 17:23

25 lines
1390 bytes

.
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?
-- 
..{allegra,seismo}!rlgvax!plunkett

Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads