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Probably, I programmed both back then and Pascal had the better development experience as a language but C had the libraries and the mindshare so it kinda depen
by noir_lord 5y ago
Probably, I programmed both back then and Pascal had the better development experience as a language but C had the libraries and the mindshare so it kinda depends where you draw the lines for developer experience.
Turbo Pascal was in it's day a joy to work with as a language - clean, fast (compilation and runtime), good documentation, decent tooling.
- Turing_Machine 5y agoTurbo Pascal added a whole lot of bells and whistles to Wirth's Pascal, though. Let's just say that the ability to include inline assembly language wasn't exactly a feature of Wirth's original Pascal. The best feature of the classic Borland languages was the debugger, IMO.