MS Pascal vc Turbo Pascal
Don Simard
I have been in the market for a pascal system and had a few questions.
MS PASCAL costs 2/3 the price of TURBO Pascal 7.0 ($67 vs $99), is
TURBO worth the additional bucks?
It was interesting to see the difference in pricing of TURBO C++ vs
TURBO Pascal 7.0. C++ goes for ~ $67 vs Pascal's price of $99. What
gives? Is a C++ compiler ssystem easier to produce and maintain or are
we witnessing an ecomony of market effect?
Don
Dr. Tongue
>I have been in the market for a pascal system and had a few questions.
>MS PASCAL costs 2/3 the price of TURBO Pascal 7.0 ($67 vs $99), is
>TURBO worth the additional bucks?
Why are you quibbling over $20? Turbo's IDE and colorization option
more than make up for that $20...
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Glenn Pittenger
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>I have been in the market for a pascal system and had a few questions.
>MS PASCAL costs 2/3 the price of TURBO Pascal 7.0 ($67 vs $99), is
>TURBO worth the additional bucks?
This depends on what you want. Turbo Pascal is by far the more common. I
don't think Microsoft has updated MS Pascal since 1990 (not sure but its
been a while). Turbo Pascal is very good, I would go with it. The single
advantage I am aware of with MS-Pascal is that it produces .OBJ files that
can be linked with other language's .OBJ files (so I've heard). Maybe someone
else here can speak to this?
>It was interesting to see the difference in pricing of TURBO C++ vs
>TURBO Pascal 7.0. C++ goes for ~ $67 vs Pascal's price of $99. What
>gives? Is a C++ compiler ssystem easier to produce and maintain or are
>we witnessing an ecomony of market effect?
Some may argue that Pascal is better than C, thus the higher price. :)
Part of it though is competition. There is a lot of it with c, not much
with pascal.
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>Don
Glenn Pittenger