Editing JRT Pascal (section)

==Reception==
Pournelle in May 1983 reported that JRT Pascal 2.0 was "intentionally a nonportable dialect", criticized its error handling, and advised beginners with the language to "stay away from it".<ref name="pournelle198305">{{Cite magazine |last=Pournelle |first=Jerry |date=May 1983 |title=Ulterior Motives, Lobo, Buying Your First Computer, JRT Update |url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-05/1983_05_BYTE_08-05_The_Electronic_Office#page/n299/mode/2up |magazine=BYTE |pages=298–324}}</ref> ''BYTE'' editors in April 1983 and January 1984 reported receiving many complaints from readers on slow delivery of JRT Pascal. Pournelle in January 1984 called version 3.0 "a bargain at $29.95. Qualifications: it's a bargain in comparison to a lot of stuff on the market, and its value depends in good part on what you intend to do with it". He reported that 3.0 "has fixed most—not all, but most—of the bugs that plagued the earlier versions", and that "it's cheap for the compiler alone, and you get a bunch of useful utilities with it". Pournelle warned, however, of its "nonstandard features" and that based on Smith's experience and "lots of letters from readers who ordered JRT Pascal and received nothing ... for months", "you must then be prepared to wait" for delivery.{{r|pournelle198401}} Because of JRT, Borland at first had difficulty in persuading customers that it was shipping Turbo Pascal.<ref name="pournelle198404">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1984-04/1984_04_BYTE_09-04_Real-World_Interfacing#page/n57/mode/2up | title=The Most Fabulous Object in the Entire World | work=BYTE | date=April 1984 | accessdate=2 March 2016 | author=Pournelle, Jerry | pages=57}}</ref> [[Bruce F. Webster]] in August 1985 described JRT Pascal in the magazine as a "fiasco".<ref name="webster198508">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1985-08/1985_08_BYTE_10-08_Declarative_Languages#page/n361/mode/2up | title=Greetings and Agitations | work=BYTE | date=August 1985 | accessdate=27 October 2013 | author=Webster, Bruce F. | pages=355}}</ref> Jeff Duntemann stated in ''[[PC Magazine]]'' in 1984 that JRT Pascal "was a terrible compiler. Besides doing great harm to the Pascal language definition, it was a bug farm, locking up my CP/M-80 computer several times an evening. Not surprisingly, JRT Systems went bankrupt late last year".{{r|duntemann19841113}}