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Turbo Pascal 3.0 was my first serious programming language (after Apple ][ Basic). 30kb of editor/compiler in one package. Then used Turbo/Borland Pascal 5.0/5
by malkia 14y ago
Turbo Pascal 3.0 was my first serious programming language (after Apple ][ Basic). 30kb of editor/compiler in one package.
Then used Turbo/Borland Pascal 5.0/5.5 for quite a while, a bit of 6.01, short Delphi, and by that time already moved to C/C++
I moved of a reasonably stupid thing. The MoveFile() function exposed in Borland Pascal was not able to move files between folders. Although I knew some assembly, and Ralph Brown Interrupt List was the greatest thing ever, I did not consider rewriting routines in it (For some reason I was thinking - this language supports this, and this one that... much later I realized - these were just libraries, even if they were builtin ones - CRT). But for that reason I moved to C/C++ - because it had the function... lol.
I loved how .TPU/.DPU files worked, much more efficient than headers.
- pjmlp 14y agoIt is really sad that C eventually took over. Now we need to force everyone to move to safer languages. One thing I like in C++ over C, is that the language + libraries gives me enough freedom to achieve a Pascal like programming safety, thanks to references, STL and stronger type checking than C.