The language/IDE of choice at college was Turbo Pascal. But then they introduced Turbo C and I just had to use it for my graphics class (because C was obviously

The language/IDE of choice at college was Turbo Pascal. But then they introduced Turbo C and I just had to use it for my graphics class (because C was obviously going to be faster than that Pascal stuff, right?) Wrong. The Pascal compiler had had years of optimization done to it and their C compiler was a 1.0 product. My programs ran at half the speed of everyone else's.