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I will be forever grateful that an appendix to one of the Turbo Pascal manuals described exactly how objects were laid out in memory (including function pointer
by cperciva 10y ago
I will be forever grateful that an appendix to one of the Turbo Pascal manuals described exactly how objects were laid out in memory (including function pointers).
- lobster_johnson 10y agoTurbo Pascal's manuals came with a separate volume dedicated solely to OOP. It's one of the best technical manuals I've ever read. Beautifully typeset, too [1]. Borland's technical documentation was really, really good at that time. [1] ftp://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/borland/turbo_pascal/Turbo_Pascal_Version_5.5_Object-Oriented_Programming_Guide_1989.pdf
- cperciva 10y agoLooks like what I was remembering as being an appendix was actually the last chapter of that volume: "Inside Turbo Pascal"