19 Feb
2015
19 Feb
'15
6:49 p.m.
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?
Umm, no. It was the $49.95 price tag, back when compilers cost hundreds -
even thousands - of dollars.
--lyndon