19 Feb
2015
19 Feb
'15
8:43 a.m.
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Mike Loewen wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, John Foust wrote:
It also did a pretty good job of wiping the floor with every other
compiler out there, regardless of language.
g.
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At 05:05 PM 2/18/2015, Ethan Dicks wrote:
It was fast, easy to use, and inexpensive. I snark about Pascal all the time. I encountered
it in a professional
capacity in 1987. [...]
Utterly trivial in languages that trust the programmer to handle
unformatted I/O.
All true, but doesn't it make you wonder why Turbo Pascal
was such a popular development environment for the PC for so long?>
Was it the sheer will power and marketing of Borland, or was
it the volume of developers who didn't need intensive low-level I/O?