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> And the whole thing was lightning fast, orders of magnitude faster at building projects than Microsoft's compilers. This particular comparison is interesting
by 0xcde4c3db 7y ago
> And the whole thing was lightning fast, orders of magnitude faster at building projects than Microsoft's compilers.
This particular comparison is interesting when you consider that the primary author of Turbo Pascal, Anders Hejlsberg, has been at Microsoft working on C# and TypeScript for quite a while.
- oaiey 7y agoAnders (and Typescript and C# and TurboPascal) is always about productivity. Compile time is only a small part of that.
- kragen 7y agoPhilippe Kahn is not Anders Hejlsberg!
- 0xcde4c3db 7y agoI suppose we could call Kahn the primary author of Turbo Pascal v1 if we exclude the actual compiler from the definition of "Turbo Pascal", but I'm not sure why we'd do that, especially in the context of this article. He definitely deserves credit for establishing the product category of "credible off-the-shelf IDE for commodity microcomputers", though.
- kragen 7y agoI didn't realize Anders Hejlsberg wrote the compiler in the original Turbo Pascal! Thank you for the correction.
- pjmlp 7y agoAnd J++.