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Nostalgia! I learned programming in my own time on 1980's 8-bit machines, but in college it was Pascal on Vax VMS then Turbo Pascal on, IIRC, an Act Sirius. Lo
by kcartlidge 6y ago
Nostalgia!
I learned programming in my own time on 1980's 8-bit machines, but in college it was Pascal on Vax VMS then Turbo Pascal on, IIRC, an Act Sirius. Loved the language.
Then along came JPI TopSpeed Modula-2 (Pascal++ [joke]) and even though I now do C#, Go, Node, Python, Ruby, and FreePascal, nothing matches the sheer productivity and performance that TopSpeed provided. And their IDE was incredible at the time (though Turbo Pascal 3 having a compiler and editor in around 40KB was technically more awesome).
- jksmith 6y agoYeah I have to say if TSM2 had been maintained I'd still be using it. It was badass. Remember that green thread car traffic demo? That was cute. It's unfortunate the tyranny of C never let M2 break through. Opinion is that the software world would would be in better shape now if M2 had gotten a real foothold.
- kcartlidge 6y ago> Remember that green thread car traffic demo? Indeed - I still have the software (though the disks are long gone). A few years back I even rewrote that demo in C# (console app) because why not. Edit: Anders Heljsberg is responsible for C# and TypeScript. Prior to that he wrote what became Turbo Pascal and was chief architect on Delphi. Seems I can't escape his stuff.