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Oh wow, I think I learned Pascal via Turbo Pascal. When I was 14 in 1984 I went to a Computer Camp at Virginia Tech and we used Pascal in this monolithic IDE so

Oh wow, I think I learned Pascal via Turbo Pascal. When I was 14 in 1984 I went to a Computer Camp at Virginia Tech and we used Pascal in this monolithic IDE sort of thing. Maybe it was actually UCSD Pascal.... We made a simple 16 room 4x4 dungeon with keys and doors. Each group writing the code for one room and them tying them all together. It came out not bad for a bunch of kids. When I got my Amiga a year later I was happy that there was a Pascal compiler, then saddened that it only had stdio sort of interface. No way to open windows and draw things or the like. Luckily I found a FORTH that not only had a 68k assembler but also all of the constants and things you needed to write graphics and the bonus of making that single executable file. Sorta sad I never really got to use Pascal after that. By university time it was all Assembly, FORTRAN and C for the CS classes.

knodi123 6y ago
> I think I learned Pascal via Turbo Pascal. When I was 14 in 1984 Ha, I learned it via TP when I was 14 in 1994! So many dumb hijinks in that class. If there was somebody you didn't like, one thing you could do was space out past the end of line 1 of the program and just write END; in the 100th column or so. That made everything else in the file just a comment. There was no word wrap, so unless they knew how to page right, there was no way they'd ever figure it out! I also wrote a 2-player pong game, but I knew the keyboard handler could only handle 3 keys at a time, so if you wanted to temporarily disable the other player at a key moment, you could just hold down three keys and shut him out. Ah, good times.