Hello David!

Sunday March 10 1996 00:13, David Muir wrote to Anton Sparrius:

 AS>> Ok..flame you if you want you all "i love C++ and would never do
 AS>> anything else", but does anyone use speed pascal??  And, wots
 AS>> your opinion of it??

 DM>     I don't use Speed Pascal because I find VP much more reliable. I
 DM> don't like the "requirement" to use a custom string type which is
 DM> defined in neither "C" nor "Pascal" to call
OS/2 API's (I have no use
 DM> for the entire CSTRING type). Anything that can be done with CSTRING
 DM> can be done with STRINGs or PChars (true "C" strings).

Removed in 1.5..

 DM>     The compiler bombs without notice for no reason (recompiling the
 DM> same code after a subsequent open works fine, but may bomb again 4
 DM> compile attempts later).

Never encountered this.  Maybe you should send a bug report. (to the author)

 DM>     Don't like the "need" for 32bit text IO (made no
speed difference
 DM> on my system but would require me to distribute the DLL and require
 DM> the user to locate it accordingly).

A small DLL... And it doesn't even need to be placed by the user.. having
it in the same directory as the program tends to work fine.

 DM>     Please keep in mind that this is ONLY my opinion and may differ
 DM> significantly from those of others. "I" would be more likely to
 DM> consider a purchase of the VP release (later this month) that the
 DM> SPEED release. I would also be more content to use the VP beta with
 DM> it's known bugs rather than to use the current release of Speed.

Yeah, 1.0 of Speed isn't good, It was rushed because of everyone pushing
them to get it released right then... So they released it and went back to
improving it..

Besides, I got it for about 160$US less than VP's retail :)

Keith

... I think so brain, But if we didn't have ears, We'd look like WEASELS!
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