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Turbo Pascal first or early version was for $50 I think. And many other compilers were ~$500 around the same period.
by vram22 10y ago
Turbo Pascal first or early version was for $50 I think. And many other compilers were ~$500 around the same period.
- AstroJetson 10y agoPrice point was important, you could get Cobol and Fortran for $30. https://books.google.com/books?id=_i8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=Nevada+PILOT+computer+language&source=bl&ots=jQIeMXrzWd&sig=imbCxS_TsSZO6j1s_cu7c8EIGxc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjuuYKZsuTPAhUEVT4KHYVFAo8Q6AEINjAE#v=onepage&q=Nevada%20PILOT%20computer%20language&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=_i8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA38&lpg=P...
- aidenn0 10y agoTurbo Pascal really set the standard for IDEs that would run on consumer machines (as opposed to workstations). The compilation times were near zero, even on my 12.5MHz AT. Switching to Turbo C++ was a huge step backwards in that regard (AMD 40MHz 386DX, hit compile, go play Frisbee for 15 minutes).
- vram22 10y agoYes, Turbo Pascal was blindingly fast - I could type almost as fast as I could think :) (I mean, even though incrementally compiling my code every few lines) - equivalent or better than a scripting language - at least for small to medium-sized programs. Fantastic for exploratory programming and learning and correcting as you go, though also for bigger, less exploratory stuff. I don't think I've met its match to this day. I read that the Borland developers who created it wrote it in tuned assembly language.
- tripzilch 10y agoTurbo Pascal was the best, for that time. Unfortunately it didn't really set the standard, as no IDE I've used afterwards has ever been of comparable speed, without any lag anywhere ;)
- vram22 10y agoExactly what I said in my sibling comment :)