9 May
2024
9 May
'24
10:10 p.m.
> Turbo-Pascal was quite popular. At the
annnouncement of it (West Coast
> Computer Faire), Phillipe Kahn (Borland) was so inundated with "yeah,
> but what about C?" questions, that by the end of the first day, "Turbo
> C is coming soon"
On Thu, 9 May 2024, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
I learned on Turbo C. It was a fantastic little IDE.
I have heard that Pascal was originally developed for TEACHING programming.
Turbo Pascal makes that easier.
In my C programming classes, for every homework assignment, I required
that the students submit the output (screen print), a source file, and a
screen print of the portion of the directory, to show that they had
created a source file and an executable file. And that the executable
file was created AFTER the source file was created; a surprising number
were NOT.
We had available Turbo C and Quick C, as well as Microsoft C compiler,
DeSmet ("Personal C"), and GCC compilers. and occasionally a few others.
I required that each student had to do one program in an IDE, and one with
a command line compiler. After they had shown that they COULD do both,
then they could use whatever they wanted for subsequent assignments.
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