🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑Mar 11
For no particular reason, I am feeling nostalgic for Turbo Pascal.
Show threadDaniel CarosoneMar 11
@brouhaha it was cool and all but I always thought it was trying to be UCSD p-System and didn't quite manage it
Show thread🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑Mar 11
@uep Having used both quite a bit, the only things "wrong" with Turbo Pascal compared to UCSD Pascal were:
* Not cross-platform - only supported Z80 and 8088/8086
* No separate compilation or "units" - fixed in Turbo Pascal 4.0 (Early UCSD actually didn't have this either.)
Show threadResunaMar 11

@brouhaha @uep

I don't think there were ever many apps written in UCSD but I think it was better behaved.

Show threadKen McLeodMar 11

@resuna @brouhaha @uep If I recall correctly, UCSD Pascal couldn't be used to make a standalone, all-in-one-binary application. There were separate runtime libraries that had to be present.

Turbo Pascal was extremely fast to compile on a (Mac) 68000 CPU, but it produced code which was flaky on the 68020. I've forgotten the details but Turbo Pascal for the Mac didn't last too far into the Mac II era before being discontinued.

Show threadPaul_IPv6

@_the_cloud @resuna @brouhaha

i remember learning to code in C using lightspeed C on a mac plus

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