Re: [BLACKBOX] Years ahead of its time

From: [at]} <Marc>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 11:52:45 -0700

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> And so, why is Delphi more popular than BlackBox?

I always figured it was because it was more backwards
compatible with the original Pascal... and that
programmers didn't like some of the changes, notably:

  uppercase keywords
  case sensitivity
  missing WRITELN, READLN, etc.
  missing enumerated types

Marc
  

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