Retro? Necro? Oh yes, Turbo!
Posted by Mariya Mykhailova on January 25, 2010Most people who write about Turbo Pascal start with their memorials about its appearance and their experience with it. I can't pattern them, since Turbo Pascal 1.0 is exactly two years older than I am, so I used only 7.0 version, followed by Delphi.
I'll have to approach this topic from opposite direction and tell you how Turbo Pascal looks from the modern point of view, for a person who was raised on modern IDEs and turns to Turbo Pascal with purely exploratory purposes.
So, let's have a look at year 1983 and Turbo Pascal 1.0...
Turbo Pascal 1.0