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From: NCOHEN@IBM.COM (Norman COHEN)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Borland denies any Turbo Ada plans
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Date: 8 Mar 88 20:59:50 GMT
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I called Borland International today, and a customer-service
representative denied that there are any plans for a Turbo Ada (or
TurboADA or anything of the kind).

The recently released version 4.0 of Turbo Pascal offers many Ada-like
and Modula-2-like extensions, which may have led to the rumor.

(The extensions include separately compiled units with
distinct interface and implementation sections.  Like Ada packages, Turbo
Pascal 4.0 units can be given initialization code that will be executed
before the main program gets control.  Of course none of the syntax is
compatible with Ada.  Indeed, the Turbo Pascal 4.0 equivalent of the Ada
WITH clause is something called the USES clause.  Given that the Pascal
WITH statement allows a programmer to use names of the form X in place of
names of the form Y.X, just like an Ada USE clause, the Turbo Pascal 4.0
programmer should be thoroughly confused when he tries to learn Ada!)