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Saw this quote in Wikipedia, I find it amusing: "Bill Gates saw the success of Turbo Pascal "in very personal terms, and 'couldn't understand why [Microsoft's]
by Sunspark 6y ago
Saw this quote in Wikipedia, I find it amusing:
"Bill Gates saw the success of Turbo Pascal "in very personal terms, and 'couldn't understand why [Microsoft's] stuff was so slow. He would bring in Greg Whitten [programming director of Microsoft languages] and yell at him for half an hour.' He couldn't understand why Kahn had been able to beat an established competitor like Microsoft.""
- bluedino 6y agoI came across a copy of QuickPascal for $19.99 from Surplus Software and used that for a while because my version of Turbo Pascal was old (2.0) and am the current one was $69.99, a lot of money since I was just a kid.