In article <20061106122449.E64970 at shell.lmi.net>,
Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> writes:
[...] Some of them didn't even
know that current Pascal compilers were designed for TEACHING programming,
and did not produce output suitable for real world.
Ironicly, when I was the TA for "Introduction to Programming using
Pascal" at the UofU in 1988, they used LightSpeed Pascal for the Mac
classic. It was kind of like TurboPascal/TurboC in that the compiler
did everything in memory and was therefore quite fast. It had decent
integration with the Mac Toolbox so you could do all your normal style
Mac stuff. It was a pretty decent environment and I remember being
impressed with it because on previous Pascal implementations I had
used, I had considered them to be fairly lame.
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