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Thirty years later, I still miss the Turbo Pascal / Borland Pascal, Borland C(++) experience. Few, if any, 'modern' IDEs have yet reached the simplicity and ea
by deepspace 6y ago
Thirty years later, I still miss the Turbo Pascal / Borland Pascal, Borland C(++) experience. Few, if any, 'modern' IDEs have yet reached the simplicity and ease of that development environment.
- cblum 6y agoI've been toying with Turbo Pascal 5.5 running on FreeDOS on an old laptop. There's something really relaxing about it, compared to modern programming.
- russh 6y agoTurbo Pascal 5.5 with objects was the pinnacle of my programming enjoyment. Python 3 is catching up.
- jablan 6y agoBecause the development itself has changed immensely. The closest experience today is probably the one of developing for Arduinos.
- vanderZwan 6y agoHomebrew scene for consoles and graphing calculators too, I'd say. I think the overarching reason is that you know the platform you're developing for all the way down to the hardware.
- jki275 6y agoI loved Turbo Pascal back in the 90s, that was the first IDE I ever used. I think Visual Studio 6 is equivalent in ease of use and user experience -- that's what I learned C++ on back in the early 2000s, before the influx of Java and Python into academia.
- int_19h 6y agoFree Pascal is still around, and still includes a text mode IDE written in their own fork of Turbo Vision.