Borland International Inc is shipping Release 6.0 of its Turbo Pascal object-oriented programming language: new features include Turbo Vision, which puts the ability to write professional-quality applications within the reach of every programmer, enabling them to start from a generic, inheritable application with built-in support for overlapping windows, pull-down menus, handling of mouse and keyboard events, and extensible collection types and the ability to save and load persistent objects; a new Integrated Development Environment adds overlapping windows and mouse support, a new multi-file editor, dialogue boxes, cut-and-paste clipboard and integrated debugging with a new register window and conditional breakpoints; a new built-in assembler provides access to Pascal symbols and enables addition of assembly language routines to boost the performance of Pascal code; to that, Turbo Pascal Professional 6.0 adds a command-line Turbo Drive compiler, which runs in extended memory and enables compilation of very large MS-DOS applications; the new release needs a 512Kb machine with MS-DOS 2.0 up and costs $150; Pascal Professional 6.0 is $300.
