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I was working at a software store during the mid-late 80's (Babbages if anyone knows it) and had a customer come in asking for a small, lightweight editor... Yo
by rottyguy 11y ago
I was working at a software store during the mid-late 80's (Babbages if anyone knows it) and had a customer come in asking for a small, lightweight editor... You know like "turbo pascal but w/o the compiler part". First time I ever heard of it and, tbh, had no idea what he was talking about. I later used it to do some work for in my CS class (highschool was teaching programming via Pascal). It's a good language to learn after basic and before C/C++.
IIRC correctly, TP used a yellow font (well ascii) on a black background (default)? Didn't it also have some quick key combinations (I recall a ctrl+k for some reason but I'm sure it's just memory...)
- pjmlp 11y ago> IIRC correctly, TP used a yellow font (well ascii) on a black background (default)? Only Turbo Pascal 3.0, afterwards the IDE had other colors.
- bluedino 11y agoTurbo Pascal 2.0 had the yellow/black scheme as seen here: http://imgur.com/utFhJag http://imgur.com/utFhJag Turbo C always had the more complex IDE, which Turbo Pascal didn't get until 4.0: http://imgur.com/kYjwuPA http://imgur.com/kYjwuPA That environment used the Turbo Vision library, and it was later ported to DJGPP and also Linux, there's an editor called RHIDE which uses it. Microsoft used their own IDE in products like QBasic, edit.com, as well as their C and Pascal compilers: http://imgur.com/H6J12Dy http://imgur.com/H6J12Dy
- nathell 11y agoClarification: Turbo Vision was not around until TP 6.0 (TV 1.0 was released with TP 6.0, while TV 2.0, much extended, came with TP 7.0). Turbo Pascal 4.0 through 5.5's IDEs were, TTBOMK, not based on Turbo Vision.
- jablan 11y ago> Didn't it also have some quick key combinations (I recall a ctrl+k for some reason but I'm sure it's just memory...) Exactly. So-called WordStar combinations, which lot of the editors of the time were using. AFAIK, it is still used on some quite popular text editors on Linux (joe?). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar
- jhallenworld 11y agoI'm compelled to plug the recently released JOE 4.1 here: http://sourceforge.net/p/joe-editor/mercurial/ci/default/tree/NEWS.md http://sourceforge.net/p/joe-editor/mercurial/ci/default/tre... "jstar" version of JOE has the WordStar keys.
- rottyguy 11y agohaha wordstar v word perfect! haven't heard those words in ages...