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Inline assembler was a killer feature: you could optimize bits of your code without having to understand how an assembler works and without having to deal with
by wiz21c 3y ago
Inline assembler was a killer feature: you could optimize bits of your code without having to understand how an assembler works and without having to deal with a linker as Pascal compiler did everything itself.
Great time indeed !
- foobarian 3y agoNot to mention you had a running program milliseconds after Ctrl-F9. I get modern apps require so much more stuff to run but I still miss that zippy experience.
- wiz21c 3y ago+1 for the fast compile time. TurboPascal was not a marketing name, it was that fast, including my old 386 machine. But TBH, nowaday's compilers do so much more, I'll happily trade compile time for that !