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I have warm fuzzies for way back when I coded in Turbo Pascal. Even on the 8086 I had at the time, compilation speed was incredibly fast even on midsized projec

I have warm fuzzies for way back when I coded in Turbo Pascal. Even on the 8086 I had at the time, compilation speed was incredibly fast even on midsized projects. Much faster than my day to day work with Go on an M3 Max. I had to install it last night in DOSBox-X and compile the Breakout example project. The warm fuzzies are justified.

pjmlp 2y ago
Here is Borland's marketing material bragging about Turbo Pascal 5.5 compile times, on those 640 KB MS-DOS PCs. 34 000 lines of code per minute! https://bitsavers.org/pdf/borland/turbo_pascal/Turbo_Pascal_5.5_Brochure_1989.pdf https://bitsavers.org/pdf/borland/turbo_pascal/Turbo_Pascal_...