Turbo Pascal was my first experience in structured programming languages (and a slick IDE to boot!). The affordability of all the Turbo branded language produc

Turbo Pascal was my first experience in structured programming languages (and a slick IDE to boot!). The affordability of all the Turbo branded language products (and the excellent printed documentation that came with them) that were made available to me as child by my parents are on the primary reasons I have such a love for technology and why I am in software development today. It's really a shame that modern programming platforms don't capture some of that same ease of use for experimentation. :(