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looking at the perfection of Turbo pascal always made me feel stupid. At least it's not just me, wikipedia says: "Scott MacGregor of Microsoft said that Bill G
by MichaelMoser123 3y ago
looking at the perfection of Turbo pascal always made me feel stupid. At least it's not just me, wikipedia says:
"Scott MacGregor of Microsoft said that Bill Gates "couldn't understand why our stuff was so slow" compared to Turbo Pascal. "He would bring in poor Greg Whitten [programming director of Microsoft languages] and yell at him for half an hour" because their company was unable to defeat Kahn's small startup, MacGregor recalled.[21] " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal
- hulitu 3y ago> "Scott MacGregor of Microsoft said that Bill Gates "couldn't understand why our stuff was so slow" compared to Turbo Pascal. "He would bring in poor Greg Whitten [programming director of Microsoft languages] and yell at him for half an hour" They tried this on a project at my workplace. After six months of money spent on "yelling", they finally started to fix the issues.
- acqq 3y agoActually, how was Turbo Pascal faster than the competition was completely obvious to those experienced in the software development at that time: It did everything possible in memory, avoiding reading and writing of temporary files. Microsoft tools did it with the file I/O for multiple passes, a traditional solution for coping with limited RAM and applying optimization steps and targeting different processors.