Turbo Pascal 6.0 was the pinnacle of IDEs. Or the pinnacle of my joy in programming, which, of course, is difficult to distinguish. :-) I spent hours upon ho

Turbo Pascal 6.0 was the pinnacle of IDEs. Or the pinnacle of my joy in programming, which, of course, is difficult to distinguish. :-) I spent hours upon hours poring over VGA graphics code in Pascal, then assembly (called by Pascal, since I wasn't sophisticated enough to understand how to build a stand-alone EXE from ASM) in high school. I would tweak things, then run against the slick built-in profiler, then refine some more. Some time later, I came across this vast information pipe called Usenet and found out that everything I worked on was years out of date, since ModeX provided dramatically faster access to video memory. Ignorance is bliss...