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Pascal was super popular for applications development on the original 68k Macs, Amigas and Atari ST's. I don't know if these machines fall into your "extremely
by einr 5y ago
Pascal was super popular for applications development on the original 68k Macs, Amigas and Atari ST's. I don't know if these machines fall into your "extremely tiny" envelope but we're talking 68000 @ 7 MHz with usually 512K or maybe 1M of RAM.
A little later, Turbo Pascal ran like greased lightning on a 386 or 486 box. There was really nothing else like it, which is partly why it enjoyed such immense popularity.
- ncmncm 5y agoMacs were never programmed in Pascal, but in a variant dialect called Object Pascal. Turbo Pascal compiled fast. The generated code ran at more or less the same speed as output of random other compilers.
- Tozen 5y agoThe line between Pascal and Object Pascal is very small. Some people might be thinking of the relationship between C and C++, but it is a different situation with Pascal and Object Pascal. Object Pascal is an extension of Pascal. For instance, many of Apple's Object Pascal extensions were incorporated into Turbo Pascal. From Turbo Pascal version 5.5 and up, it is Borland's version of Object Pascal. You can use Objects and do OOP in Turbo Pascal.