I used Turbo Pascal 2.0 from 1984 as late as 1991. It was what my dad's work-from-home PC happened to have installed and there was no internet to just go downlo

I used Turbo Pascal 2.0 from 1984 as late as 1991. It was what my dad's work-from-home PC happened to have installed and there was no internet to just go download newer software when you wanted it. Only had some old 1970's Pascal textbook and the example-code bundled with Turbo Pascal 2.0 to learn how to use it and that was enough to make some silly little games and learn a lot about programming (beyond what I could do earlier with GWBASIC). Had fun in recent months installing fpc on all my computers and playing with it and it seems really good. Cross-platform support is amazing, possibly the best I have ever seen.