My first foray into "real" PC programming was done in via Kahn/Borland's fairly awesome Turbo Pascal compiler back in the the early 80's for IBM's DOS OS. Pasc

My first foray into "real" PC programming was done in via Kahn/Borland's fairly awesome Turbo Pascal compiler back in the the early 80's for IBM's DOS OS. Pascal introduced me to pointers, free-form editing (I came from interpreted BASIC where line numbers and such forced format) and good CS techniques. I built a true circular linked-list as one of my first projects. I can remember at the time being awed at how fast the compiled executables ran on the PC, and quickly started writing Blackjack and Poker simulations using the language. It's good to see efforts in releasing this...Pascal has been of course outshined by Python, Go etc etc but it's always fun to trip down memory lane.