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Its great to see this. Pascal was the language they taught us in highschool. Everyone in the class was given a license to Borland Turbo Pascal v5. While I ha
by binarymax 14y ago
Its great to see this. Pascal was the language they taught us in highschool. Everyone in the class was given a license to Borland Turbo Pascal v5. While I haven't really used it since, Pascal will always hold a special place in my heart. I wrote my first game in it, and spent many long nights trying to figure out how to accept mouse interrupts, how to use pointers to efficiently redraw graphics, and lots of other fundamental things I now take for granted.
- acheron 14y agoPascal (and specifically Borland's Turbo Pascal) is what started my transition from spaghetti code BASIC to something at least vaguely structured. All (mostly) self-taught -- my high school didn't have any kind of programming classes -- but Pascal encouraged a structure much more than BASIC did, and helped me to realize the importance.
- JohnBooty 14y agoThese are my thoughts, exactly! I still have my Turbo Pascal book sitting on my bookshelf, since it brings back happy memories. Turbo Pascal was such a cool technical achievement, and Pascal was definitely not a bad language at all. Great learning language, and great at other things too.
- skittles 14y agoEmbarcado still has a set of "antique" software downloads. Turbo Pascal 5.5 is one of them. They also have old C and C++ versions. All of them are for personal use only and are free of charge. Here's their museum: http://edn.embarcadero.com/museum/ http://edn.embarcadero.com/museum/.