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Speaking of Turbo Pascal, it was initially created by Anders Hejlsberg. He later was heavily involved in creating Delphi, C# and TypeScript. Surely these langua
by liversage 7y ago
Speaking of Turbo Pascal, it was initially created by Anders Hejlsberg. He later was heavily involved in creating Delphi, C# and TypeScript. Surely these languages were created by teams but if you want to name a single creator it will be Anders Hejlsberg.
Before working for Borland he ran his own company where he created PolyPascal which essentially was the product Borland acquired and turned into Turbo Pascal.
PolyPascal allowed me to write software in what felt like a proper programming language. I had previously learned to code using Basic and Comal 80 but they felt like toy languages compared to Pascal.
- pdonis 7y agoI still think Delphi was the best tool for creating GUI apps ever invented. Nothing I've tried since has made it as easy.
- kolinko 7y agoThis, so much this...
- beagle3 7y agoIt was "Compas Pascal" before it was PolyPascal ... I might still have a Compas original 5.25" floppy somewhere, though even if I do, I have no drive to read it with (and have serious doubt that 30 years later, it would still read even if I did).
- ralphc 7y agoI've been on a vintage computer kick, dusted off a 30-year old PC clone. Unless the disks are physically bent, there's a good chance they'll work, a lot of my old ones did.