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nixCraft 🐧Turbo Pascal turns 41. who here remembers this one?
Jan Johannesson@nixCraft But of course!
David de Groot@nixCraft I was more a Turbo C/C++ person, but yeah, I've used that.
sashk 🇺🇦@nixCraft I remember even older one -- 5.5.
Dries V.
Akhmad Fathonih
Tim 🛥️🌈
Phoenix Gee@nixCraft Wait, that interface was in color?? I only ever saw this on amber or green...
Grafo@nixCraft uh I remember learning this on highschool, such a flashback hehehe
Beko Pharm
BigLinter@nixCraft actually, its a hobby of mine still using it=)
Ⓜ️ad Kiwi 🇳🇿@nixCraft sure do
Seth Galitzer@nixCraft That was the teaching language when I was in college.
Gorgasbord@nixCraft Pepperidge Farm...?
GM7077@nixCraft Pascal always makes me think of New Jack City lol
MrC@nixCraft my AP computer science class was based on Standard Pascal but we used TP as our IDE and compiler.
Perrin42My first programming language! Took a class in high school, although I had done some basic batch scripting previously.
Sven-Ola Tücke ✌@nixCraft
Started with the earlier CP/M version. Theres even a manual to read from this time http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/borland/turbo_pascal/Turbo_Pascal_Reference_Manual_Feb84.pdf
Started with the earlier CP/M version. Theres even a manual to read from this time http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/borland/turbo_pascal/Turbo_Pascal_Reference_Manual_Feb84.pdf
Fabien LOISON (FLOZz)@nixCraft i started programming with it :)
T Alex Beamish@nixCraft Absolutely! Used it '87-'90 for application development.
Matti Järvinen@nixCraft of course. We did some TurboPascal in school.
Thomas Lobig@nixCraft Had it in school, Germany ca. mid to late 90s. Then we moved on to Delphi. Those were the times.
Hispa ♻️
fernand0
Frank Küsel
Nicholas Edward Werner-Matavka@nixCraft It was my first programming language, in high school. Pascal turned me off programming and it was only when I learned Lisp and later Elixir that I recovered an appreciation for programming.
Sebastian "spaetz" Spaeth@nixCraft used both this and Wirth's sucessor Modula 2.
Bonkers@nixCraft a colleague student showed me a block of text on the screen (no spacing and no line breaks) and complained that it didn't work. I had to show and explain her how to do lines and tabulations before you even know what the code is doing. It was a fun time.
zl2tod@nixCraft
A shame that Pascal didn't supplant C - memory safety was so much better.
A shame that Pascal didn't supplant C - memory safety was so much better.
Gianluca@nixCraft hey since when does it have colors? I remember it was black and white! 😂 Of course I remember it. I started using version 3.0 in high school and used all the successive DOS versions also to write some productivity tools at my first job.
Lars Fosdal@nixCraft My first was TP 2 for CP/M. I've used nearly every version since then, and currently use RAD Studio 12.2. TP 5.5 was a real eye opener as the first OOP Pascal.
Nowadays you can write for Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android and Linux in Pascal.
#DelphiCode
Nowadays you can write for Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android and Linux in Pascal.
#DelphiCode
Craig Reynolds@nixCraft Yep. Used it in high school. Still doing some Delphi today, but maybe not for much longer.
Adam Trickett 
@nixCraft used TurboPascal 5.5 at university a lot. The interface of TP and TurboBASIC was great. Both could produce very neat compact DOS binaries that ran very fast on the 486 PCs we had back then. Also used Delphi which was way better than Visual BASIC.
WiGLEnet@nixCraft we maintained a pascal WiGLE client for years! (Don’t try and bring it back, the APIs have all changed)
mafe en españa@nixCraft Only from school. Never worked with that as it's older than I am.
Kaito@nixCraft how did they copyright this on 92 AD?
Graham Watt@nixCraft yikes, I probably still have the original Borland box in a basement somewhere.
Max@nixCraft learned programming Turbo Pascal 30 years ago in school, after I already knew Basic. Wrote some small tools like a locator calculator for Hamradio and distributed it via Packet Radio.
Darkstar
weph@nixCraft My favorite programming language when I was a kid/early teenager. I'm thinking about giving it a little revival to see if I can finish a project I wanted to build when I was a teen, but clearly wasn’t skilled enough.
die_christine@nixCraft Gotoxy...
Learnt it at school and it is still the base for my understanding of coding.
(We even namened our rabbit "Pascal")
KanaMaunaMy diskette is somewhere in my garage.
jesterchen42@nixCraft It was open day at my fathers school. I kept coding in the newly installed computer room.
I had three questions for the supervising teacher:
1. How to use the pc beep/speaker?
2. How to make the program uninterruptible by ctrl-c?
3. I asked for a floppy...
A few moments later he got all machines emulating an air raid siren. I felt so funny. ^^
I wonder if the school ever replaced the machines or if they are still using turbo pascal and DOS.... 🤭
Tina@nixCraft In 7th grade we learned programming in TurboPascal. Haven't used it since. I wish Scratch had been around back then.
Epistomai@nixCraft my first programming language at college, of course I remember
Patrick Wu 
@nixCraft introduction of programming to me
Santhor@nixCraft Ofc, I learned programming at school with this!
Reinder Dijkhuis Does Art@nixCraft My father tried to learn it but he was as untalented at coding as I am :)
Steven Lipton@nixCraft remember it fondly.
Jamie Knight@nixCraft I owe my career to Turbo Pascal, Borland and a book by Jeff Duntemann, “Complete Turbo Pascal.” 😊
Peter Kessler@nixCraft used it for university a lot and even helped others to get their code working. But I got sidetracked by dBase and moved on to databases. A couple of years later I even did a training for their staff in Germany probably about SQL stuff.
Chao-c'@nixCraft I did some Pascal so it must have been Turbo Pascal...
But I have spent years coding in Borland C/C++ (formerly also Turbo C). Same IDE...
Koreus
Karl Heinz Marbaise (he/him)@nixCraft Oh yes I remember about that ... long time worked with it... Turbo Pascal / Borland Pascal and later Delphi.
Marcus Fihlon@nixCraft Oh yeah, good old times! I bought Borland Turbo Pascal in a book shop with a quick start book and a bunch of diskettes. My first IDE for my brand new 80486DX33 DOS PC after doing COMAL for a few years on Commodore VC20 and C64... 🤩
Celia Valdeolmillos@nixCraft Uf, about 30 years ago....yes I remember and got chills (the introduction to programming teacher was AWFUL, we learnt from one another)
username2000@nixCraft Of course
D Ingram@nixCraft TP7 had the best manuals (might even have them somewhere). Gem like "Recursive Loop; see Loop, Recursive" and "Loop, Recursive; see Recursive Loop" in the index.
Harm@nixCraft I grew up with this, but on a monochrome amber hercules screen
GeistAusDerFlasche@nixCraft Of course I do! 😃
I learned it at school starting with TP 3 on an Apple IIe with no harddrive at all and a green on black monitor.
Loved that time but switched over to Smalltalk at work which was kind of a revelation to me
Wulfy—Speaker to the machinesOh my god.
I bought the cardboard box, with floppies inside!
I wore it on a hemp rope around my neck with the onion garland, as was the fashion at the time.
So all the other villagers could see I possessed the forbidden knowledge of compiling to exec without assembly.