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I do not remember anyone on the Mac's using Turbo Pascal, as there was a far superior offering named Lightspeed Pascal by Think Technologies. As I remember it,
by PeterStuer 3y ago
I do not remember anyone on the Mac's using Turbo Pascal, as there was a far superior offering named Lightspeed Pascal by Think Technologies. As I remember it, it would take Borland the better part of a decade to catch up to the level of Pascal IDE quality Think offered in 1986.
- ikari_pl 3y agoBorland never really cared to support Turbo Pascal for Mac, from what I've read. Most of TP popularity is from the PC market after all
- nxobject 3y agoTHINK Pascal and the THINK Reference was fantastic – instant compilation times, live debugging with one of the best symbolic debuggers I've ever used (complete with live statement and expression evaluation), concise and organized documentation of the Toolbox at your fingertips, complete with examples. The equal of Turbo Pascal on the Macintosh. The Macintosh Toolbox had, early on, a reputation for being a little bewildering with a lot of new system libraries to handle (memory management, resource management, UI/TextEdit, DIY event dispatching... it seems strange to explain to people how we would have to manually detect menu events based on location, and then manually respond to menu events), but THINK Pascal gave you a lot of courage.