Talk:Microsoft Pascal

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[edit] Votes for deletion

This page was recently nominated for deletion, and the consensus decision was to keep it, merge it with another article, and/or redirect it to another article. The deletion debate is archived here. ugen64 20:37, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Competition between Turbo Pascal and Microsoft Pascal

I removed the section below from the Turbo Pascal article. It was marked as unsourced in April [1], but nobody came. Since I was working on these tools then, I tried to modify it to make it NPOV'ed, but I fail. In fact it is just opinions, nothing here is really relevant about TP. The only real fact is that MS distributed the clone QP "for a while", but it is hardly relevant when looked at the whole picture of TP which spans more than 10 years. I copy this stuff here, in the fain hope that people trying to improve this article could use this material. AntoineL 17:03, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

===2.3 Competition with Microsoft Pascal===

It is likely that Microsoft Pascal was dropped because of the competition provided by Turbo Pascal's good quality and low price.^{[citation needed]} Another theory is that Borland made an agreement with Microsoft to drop development of Turbo BASIC, a BASIC IDE that stems from Turbo Pascal, if Microsoft would stop developing Microsoft Pascal. For a while, Microsoft produced QuickPascal, which was almost 100% compatible with Turbo Pascal.^{[citation needed]}