Brian, I don't agree about the "You weren't supposed to ..." bit.
Way before Turbo Pascal, I shipped lots of stuff written in Pascal for the TRS-80. No strings, molasses compiles, and lots of (180K!) floppy disk swapping. The end result ran much much faster than anything I could do with the ROM BASIC. 1 MHz processor and 128K of bank-switched RAM. Trevor P.S. switching to floppy drives instead of cassette tape helped as well :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Wrigley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 2:15 PM Subject: Re: [DUG] try..finally : Which way is best? > You weren't supposed to actually implement programs in Pascal - that's what > Algol, C and P/L-I were for - and it wasn't until Borland introduced "Turbo > Pascal" in the 80s, with its freer syntax, wider range of data types, and > lightning-fast compilation to highly optimised native code, that Pascal > started becoming a usable language. > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
