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Off Topic: What is that editor in the screenshot?

• RobSis 14y ago
  Turbo Pascal 7.0
  • ygra 14y ago
    6 at most. 7 had syntax highlighting.
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• willvarfar 14y ago
  Turbo Pascal! > Anders is the only one of them who built Turbo Pascal and Delphi http://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html http://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/32659364988/turbo-pascal-was-smaller-than-c http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/32659364988/turbo... Since I'm leaving links to my blog, here's another relevant one: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/43394068341/rubys-principle-of-too-much-power http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/43394068341/rubys...
  • dugmartin 14y ago
    I ran across my Turbo Pascal 3.0 disk in my pile of computer history in my attic the other day. It saved me a lot of time in college - everyone else had to submit their code to the mainframe's compiler which had no error correction and dumped reams of errors on a single syntax error.
• pjmlp 14y ago
  Turbo Pascal, one of the best Pascal dialects with fast compilation times, modules and everything you need for doing systems programming. The IDE was also quite good for the time. It was my favorite programming language until I was forced into C and C++ land. Nowadays I am just another polyglot developer, but the Pascal family of languages has a special place on my heart. I think the software would be safer would one language of that family be the default systems language for mainstream operating systems.
  • danieldk 14y ago
    Turbo Pascal, one of the best Pascal dialects with fast compilation times, modules and everything you need for doing systems programming. And a great built-in debugger. And Borland Pascal 7 even had protected mode support. I still get nostalgic when I see screenshots of Turbo Pascal. I think the software would be safer would one language of that family be the default systems language for mainstream operating systems. Indeed, there were better languages in the Pascal family (e.g. Modula-2 and Oberon), but they gained much traction. I did write some OS/2 programs with the Canterbury Modula-2 compiler.
    • pjmlp 14y ago
      Have you ever used Native Oberon or his successor AOS operating systems? A nice experience that it is possible to have desktop operating systems written in GC enabled system programming languages, contrary to what many people think. Sadly not well known outside the Zurique's Technical University (ETHZ) or the institutes that work with them. I liked in the experience back in the mid-nineties and I am a bit of Oberon collector.
      • willvarfar 14y ago
        There is precious little exposure of Oberon. What you need to do is make a decent 'unwrapping' video and then talk about how the object system worked e.g. widgets. That'd get some attention here.
        • pjmlp 14y ago
          Yeah, I am actually planning to do something like this, but so far real life keeps getting in the way. :)
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      • danieldk 14y ago
        I tried it during my Modula-2/Oberon days, but it was a bit too weird for me :).