>Turbo Pascal (mentioned by many in this thread). I'll third or fourth or n'th Turbo Pascal and Turbo C (and a few other Borland products over time). (I know a

>Turbo Pascal (mentioned by many in this thread). I'll third or fourth or n'th Turbo Pascal and Turbo C (and a few other Borland products over time). (I know about their corporate issues and pivots, yes.) TP 3.x: Under 40 KB .COM size (not MB, not .EXE). Blazingly fast WordStar compatible editor and true compiler (created .COM files) in that size. Had a lot of fun working on it, and created one of my first freelance projects using it (started, somewhat unusually, as a freelancer, and then went on to jobs).