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Those were the days with Turbo Pascal

• ngcc_hk 6y ago
  Still remember the day the first time tuning Turbo Pascal (and later Turbo Prolog). How can that be so fast? Finally have time to do my "dream" project, converting Turbo Bridge to another platform. But reading this wiki page fill a lot of joy. Many joke like IBM cannot sell program < $200 and Bill Gates shouted at others on why their program so slow. Do not know they even have a lisp interpreter. http://staff.um.edu.mt/jskl1/turbo.html#Lisp http://staff.um.edu.mt/jskl1/turbo.html#Lisp. Finding distraction in this dark time of Hong Kong.
  • kazinator 6y ago
    From the Wikipedia page: "The edit/compile/run cycle was fast compared to other Pascal implementations because everything related to building the program was stored in RAM, and because it was a one-pass compiler written in assembly language." BTW "compiler written in assembly language" is sweetly ironic, isn't it.
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