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nixCraft 🐧Who here remembers these two?
jeffluszcz@nixCraft I loved both. So powerful. I can't remember now if I was using Turbo Pascal or Turbo C++ but I loved making strange TSR programs / apps.
pancake 
@nixCraft great memories for in those IDEs. FPC manage to mimic that on modern unixes quite well :) but the dos experience was memorable
AMS@nixCraft Learned C with the latter and the K&R. Had to swap floppies to compile, the again to link.
Padawan 
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I used both IDEs when back in… Oh my God! I’m old.
I used both IDEs when back in… Oh my God! I’m old.
Petros Koutoupis@nixCraft yes! Turbo C++ came with a book I was reading to learn C++ many decades ago.
FactoryLad@nixCraft me too, first IDE! Circa 1989 and 1991 respectively
shaun@nixCraft Oh yes; this was my first C compiler, though I probably used a newer version from later in the 90s. By that point I had learned Pascal on a Mac with THINK Pascal.
NiceMicro@nixCraft I studied programming on Turbo Pascal in high school. I'm not sure which version it was though.
Daniele Pantaleo 🦥
@nixCraft yep, sadly used TPascal :P
v̾i̾t̾r̾i̾o̾l̾i̾x̾@nixCraft oh man i loved Turbo Pascal with all my heart. I think about how cool their text based GUI was XD
Indigo Haze@nixCraft Recompiling the WWIV BBS Source code.... ugh.... Could have been worse... Oh, wait, it was cause there was VBBS done in QuickBasic....
I only had to touch Pascal in High School for Comp Sci.... Comp Math used qbasic cause they were cheap... ;)
sashk 🇺🇦@nixCraft oh, that sweet turbovision:)
batshadow 
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OMG! I'm getting old ... decades away - still in mind
OMG! I'm getting old ... decades away - still in mind
Matt OrganI seem to remember finding an Easter egg back when I was studying in my teens in the help files for Borland turbo c++ in the sound library doco, something about:
* Emits a 7-Hz tone for 10 seconds.
True story: 7 Hz is the resonant frequency of a chicken's skull
cavity. This was determined empirically in Australia, where a new
factory generating 7-Hz tones was located too close to a chicken
ranch: When the factory started up, all the chickens died.
Your PC may not be able to emit a 7-Hz tone. */
Raineer 
🦆@nixCraft I loved Turbo Pascal and that IDE *SO MUCH*
DrYak@nixCraft Team C here!
Began with Turbo C 2.0 and a tutorial that I borrowed from my mom, then eventually moved to Borland C++ 3.0 once my dad brought home the floppies from work.
After that DJGPP with setedit as an ide, then eventually moved to linux with KDevelop.
Still code in C/C++ occasionally, though nowadays, most of the field I'm in now work with python.
Micha 
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I forgot the TURBO-Knob 😅
I forgot the TURBO-Knob 😅
Paul Williams@nixCraft oh wow. 🙋🏼
Sterling@nixCraft
Probably about 10 years ago I had to convert a Turbo Pascal program that was basically for DOS to C#.
The code was not too bad but all the basic serial communication stuff was "start from scratch" again.
Probably about 10 years ago I had to convert a Turbo Pascal program that was basically for DOS to C#.
The code was not too bad but all the basic serial communication stuff was "start from scratch" again.
David Leitko 🗿 
@nixCraft Yes, programmed in Turbo PASCAL for a software company while I was in high school.
Edward Smith@nixCraft I certainly remember Turbo Pascal. Used that for several years taking CompSci courses in high school and college.
Pascal is a great language to learn how to program, but I'm sure modern CompSci courses don't use it anymore
in_sympathy@nixCraft I sure do remember Pascal - I actually hated it because when we started studying it at our lyceum I already was deeply into #VisualBasic 6 😆
Juan Alvarez
Ⓜ️ad Kiwi 🇳🇿@nixCraft yep me, I learnt both c and pascal using these two packages
OldTurk🗽Focus: #FreePeltier@nixCraft I used Pascal on VAX/VMX, does that count?
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud@nixCraft Incredibly superior to anything else available at the time.
avmakt@nixCraft Spent a lot of time in Turbo Pascal 5.0!
If I remember correctly, the integrated docs had the infamous part about how to kill a chicken by leveraging the resonate frequency of chicken skulls or - or something like that. We might not have had as many creative possibilities as those growing up now , but it was still a great time to be a teenager!
If I remember correctly, the integrated docs had the infamous part about how to kill a chicken by leveraging the resonate frequency of chicken skulls or - or something like that. We might not have had as many creative possibilities as those growing up now , but it was still a great time to be a teenager!
Papá Robot@nixCraft just my first year of college
BirderScott@nixCraft 🙋🏽♂️🙋🏽♂️ so many memories of both - and building apps with their underlying Turbo Vision framework. Years of my programming career on those Borland tools!!! 😝
Son of a Sailor@nixCraft Me! And I still have the floppy disks to prove it! (I started with Turbo Pascal 2.0.)
I even used Turbo Modula-2, but that one went nowhere fast.
Dave Johnson@nixCraft my first freelance programming job was to write a Turbo Pascal program that interfaced with a digitizing tablet and calculated polygon area $1500 in 80s dollars
@nixCraft those were my introduction to programming - such fond memories. I still have a DOSBox image with them installed.
Renatiux 🇵🇪🇺🇸 #BLM@nixCraft OMG I do remember that version of Turbo Pascal from my college years! I am not that old, it’s what we had back in my home country at that time ☹️
pradeep@nixCraft This was my first ever programming language encounter (as I haven't really learnt it). Soon after my uni entrance confirmation for engineering, I convinced my parents to let me learn computer. One engineering student (tried to) taught me Pascal and I think it may be Fortran too. Unfortunately I wasn't interested in programming assuming the future of computer is more mouse oriented - that was when Windows 3.1 was released. I feel bad about not learning a programming language. The only time I did programming was for my Structural Engineering project in Java for plate element finite analysis program. That was fun - with my then girlfriend and now wife.
on a side note, I think if Microsoft ever introduced Windows 3.1 to mobile phones, the current mobile market would be vastly different. But MS tried to put Windows 95 on phones and failed.
on a side note, I think if Microsoft ever introduced Windows 3.1 to mobile phones, the current mobile market would be vastly different. But MS tried to put Windows 95 on phones and failed.
Neon Duck
Steve White@nixCraft I had Turbo Pascal and had fought with BASIC for years and when Turbo C came out in 1988 I was sold. Never looked back. C is still one of the tiny number of languages I can write complex code in without an open reference :D (Though now it's mostly embedded MCUs :D)
juanma@nixCraft I still have a tutorial book.
I can sell it to you
Farce Majeure
@nixCraft also this installer was *buggy as shit*. That debugger though.
mirabilos@nixCraft I have my TP6 floppies
algedima@nixCraft Learned Pascal in school back in the day. Starting with Turbo Pascal 3. Still have a Turbo Pascal 6 book in my shelf
Dani (
Antifascista)@nixCraft Sure, I do.
But who remembers Turbo Pascal 1.0 on CP/M? It was such a revelation and joy to work with.
But who remembers Turbo Pascal 1.0 on CP/M? It was such a revelation and joy to work with.
piofthings@nixCraft aww yeah! Borland Turbo C++ IDE is what I used to learn C and C++ back in uni days…
nSonic@nixCraft @nicokaiser turbo Pascal 🙋 it was my favorite 🤩 so quick, so easy to read, so logical code structure… I wrote a little API to draw menus, windows (moveable with mouse!)… all in ASCII but with the ability to show more than 80x25 chars … such cool times
@Rp12Biker 
@nixCraft I can still remember them well. Decades ago I wrote my thesis in C++ from what was then Borland. For the computing power of the time, they were unrivaled in speed.
arcepi@nixCraft the first programming course at my university was with turbo pascal. That was in 2004. In the following years C on Plan 9, Java on Windows and Ada on Linux.
josejuan
Georg@nixCraft TP 7 was my first love and got me into programming :)
Impossible Umbrella 
@nixCraft Yup! Pascal was my second language after BBC (and Spectrum) BASIC. Used Turbo Pascal 6 at college & later used Turbo C++ (forget which version) to teach myself C… Happy memories.
OOTS@nixCraft I remember Turbo Pascal 4.0 🙈
Patrick Schmitz@nixCraft never used Pascal, but definitely used Turbo C++, combined with Turbo Assembler. Both at home and and school.
Stefan Scholl@nixCraft What's up with all the colors? I had to use Turbo Pascal at school on an Apple II with Z80 card and CP/M. On green screen.
At home, I was programming in C on a Commodore Amiga 500.
@nixCraft My first C was Lattice C 4.0 (later renamed SAS/C) on Commodore Amiga.
Sass, DavidI think Turbo Pascal is still being used to teach programming to students at at least one university in Hungary
@nixCraft Used both in different companies.
Loved Turbo Pascal because of the great "Technojock Object Toolkit", an amazing object oriented library for GUI programming.
Loved Turbo Pascal because of the great "Technojock Object Toolkit", an amazing object oriented library for GUI programming.
udo m. rader has moved@nixCraft remember writing something like a PO management system as part of a school assignment in the '80ies, albeit with an even older version of #TurboPascal.
Still remember how much I liked it compared to #GWBASIC, that I had used before 😅
IDEs as well as programming languages have really come a very long way since then.
Diabolic Preacher@nixCraft used the first one in XIth and XIIth in school. when college was using the second one to teach, I discovered Bloodshed Dev C++ and used that instead. one of my earliest exploration of alternate software and by coincidence open source as well. never tried anjuta though.
Joseph Louthan@nixCraft the real ones remember