Turbo Pascal Turns 40
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Turbo Pascal Turns 40
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#2I started with TP 3.0 in high school. It compiled faster than any other Pascal. It uses the WordStar editor. My teacher called it the cat's pajamas.
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#3Never wrote a line of code in Turbo Pascal afterward, but taking it in HS (somewhat on accident) in 1995 was what set the trajectory for the rest of my life.
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#4oof.
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#5I started with Turbo Pascal, and as is often noted by others, I spent a lot of time with the book Borland shipped with the compiler.
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#625 seconds to compile it? How come ?
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#7Never wrote a line of code in Turbo Pascal afterward, but taking it in HS (somewhat on accident) in 1995 was what set the trajectory for the rest of my life.
Same here. Even now, I still sometimes set my vim colors to blue background and yellow/white text.
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#825 seconds to compile it? How come ?
My understanding is the compiler was insanely efficient and parts of it coded in assembly if I'm not mistaken.
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#925 seconds to compile it? How come ?
My understanding is the compiler was insanely efficient and parts of it coded in assembly if I'm not mistaken.
I think that the question was rather why it took 25 seconds to the current compiler to compile an Hello world on a contemporary computer... Turbo Pascal would have definitely done that in a second or less on an 8086 CPU...
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#10When I was a kid, a kindly computer store owner (who also made me a great deal on an PC-semi-compatible running MS-DOS 1.25, for approx. a hundred lawns mowed and babies sat) sold me a copy of Turbo Pascal for generic MS-DOS (no PC BIOS assumed) on 8" floppy. He transferred it to the 160KB 5.25" format that my semi-compatible used.
I hope I was appreciative enough at the time, as I am now. That helped bootstrap my career.