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Amusing article. Turbo Pascal was an awesome IDE. I remember writing a lots of DOS software for it. Including a graphical shell (like early Windows).
by hnlmorg 5y ago
Amusing article.
Turbo Pascal was an awesome IDE. I remember writing a lots of DOS software for it. Including a graphical shell (like early Windows).
- mrlonglong 5y agoWith a DOS extender you could do a proper GUI shell and not worry about memory constraints if you had the memory.
- hnlmorg 5y agoI was still at high school though so my graphical shell was pretty limited. I’m still pretty impressed I pulled off what I did though. Just goes to show how easy Pascal was.
- lastdong 5y agoBorlando Turbos included amazing docs accessible within the IDE, with useful code examples one could quickly copy+paste and try. Great time to learn, before msdn collection, or the web as we know it now.
- ilaksh 5y agoI have started building an IDE for Algorand smart contracts (TEAL/PyTEAL) inspired by Turbo Pascal. It will go up on TurboTEAL.com within a couple of months. A lot of the core such as the Python -> PyTeal transpiler is already working. It will have the same look, built in instant context sensitive help, and a few other things.
- pjmlp 5y agoTurbo Pascal taught me what is the minimum acceptable tooling for any programming language, good OOP programming foundations (Turbo Vision and OWL later on), systems programming doesn't need to be like the C mess, good compilation speed and modular programming. All of that in PCs running MS-DOS in 1 MB RAM. Thanks Borland.