@nixCraft Used it in my High School Computer Programming class!

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It had an amazing performance for the day. I did some real-time shit on it.

@nixCraft Took Pascal at BU and used this as well as other Borland products.

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it has a Windows like UI framework in DOS env, called Turbo Vision
the IDE of Turbo Pascal and Borland C++ are all developed with it
I also learned OOP with it

@nixCraft yes, Loved it!

@nixCraft The first programming language I learned ♥️

@nixCraft Yep. High school. On an Apple IIe with CP/M extension card. So nice, compared to UCSD Pascal that required 4 floppy drives for a compile. Suddenly, all of us could compile with blazing speed right on the machine in core.

@nixCraft yep, l coded with that in high school - 1986

@nixCraft Mother of god. That screen brings back memories. Not all good ones, but mostly.

@nixCraft I loved turbo pascal 7. It was the first PC programming language I learned, shortly ahead of x86 assembler.

@nixCraft first language I learned ❤️

@nixCraft my first language!! Although I started with 3.0 which didn’t have the commander-style IDE.

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in the 2000's I converted some turbo pascal into C#... at the same time it needed the dot net compact framework to work on a handheld.

@nixCraft Used TP5.5 (I think) since September 1990 until about 1992 in first couple years of my university then switched to C/C++ (Turbo-C then Borland-C++ then Watcom-C/C++ then Visual-C++ then GCC)

@nixCraft I used Turbo Pascal 5.5 at uni, back in 1989. First programming language I learned.

@nixCraft I wrote my first game ever in Turbo Pascal. I mixed in some asm routines for the graphics, and my high school teacher for the class was blown away. I wish I still had the source...

@nixCraft I quite literally learned programming from Turbo Pascal's help system and its examples. Fond memories!

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A lot of us in the EEE undergrad escape from the FORTRAN 77 on VAX which was compulsory onto Turbo Pascal.

I recall compilation times were insanely fast. Often felt "instant". Even on my modest 8Mhz 8088 PC.

@nixCraft @mos_8502 Started on 2.0. Also, I’m old.

@nixCraft The second programming language I ever learned. Basic was, of course, first.

@nixCraft @lisamelton Hell yes. Pascal was a good language for its time, and Turbo Pascal was a great IDE.

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program FirstTurboPascalCode;
begin
Write('first programs I wrote in Turbo Pascal, 1984 on IBM PC 5150');
Writeln(‘ writing graphics packages. Fun times.’);
end.

@nixCraft Not turbo Pascal, but Borland C++, which uses the same UI, and was my first programming language, at the university. That UI brings a lot of memories

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I wrote a full-on BBS in Turbo Pascal, while in college. At one point I even implemented some crazy scheme for loadable modules, so sysops (if anyone else was crazy enough to run it) could decide at runtime which features were loaded and enabled.

Not sure I ever put that version into use.

I remember it being a wild hack though.

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I got a shiver down my spine when I saw this toot. dates me, I s'pose

@nixCraft @LabSpokane I remember it but never used it.

@nixCraft Phillipe Khan was a kick... Those were heady days. Turbo Pascal, SideKick, Object Vision, the game engine for Turbo Chess, Turbo C, Paradox...

And Borland supported CP/M, as well as MSDOS/PCDOS... I helped make copies for Apollo, Heathkit, Dec Rainbow, Apricot, Northstar, Eagle... There were so many platforms.

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I remember when I was in high school and we got introduced to programming with Turbo Pascal. This was the only class I did really well! 😂

But as a matter of fact, I had learned to program in JavaScript and PHP by myself that summer because I wanted to make websites for my fandom stuff.

@nixCraft I pretty much stopped upgrading after v5. Every release seemed to wreck prior code.

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@nixCraft @lisamelton Those were the days.

@nixCraft all downhill since

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It was great!

@nixCraft Oh, I wrote my high school final project in Turbo Pascal with the Turbo Vision UI framework. I read four whole real books to learn these, two in English and two in Russian. I also learned object-oriented programming along the way. All of that with teen age confusion and anxiety in the background. Helped me find a well-paying job later.

@nixCraft I don't, but I was using Turbo Pascal on a Mac back in that day.

@nixCraft I was my first real language after learning BASIC. Love that IDE too.

@nixCraft I learned with Turbo Pascal 3 if I remember correctly. It was the black ide. My last year or so of HS they upgraded to 7. It was jarring having the unexpected change to blue lol

@nixCraft my dad had Turbo Pascal 5.5 (on a 286 AT clone), which was the first version with OOP features. I remember vividly it said "+ Objects" on the box. I didn't know what that meant...I'd used Apple Pascal in my high school programming class, but there's no OO in Apple Pascal, nor in C64 BASIC. (I know what it means now, but can't say I'm happy about it.)

@nixCraft my first serious lang in high school, circa 1993.

@nixCraft Remember, but never used it.

@nixCraft I remember the older version, the one that didn't have all the pretty colours and menus.

I think it was version 3. It was my first exposure to a compiled language, having only used basic and assembler on my C64 before then.

@nixCraft I remember it very well! 😀I wrote tons of code in Turbo Pascal before I switched to Delphi, C++ Builder, etc.! That includes several Fortran 77 programs on a PC set up as a terminal to PDP-11 clone, which used Turbo Pascal’s editor as an IDE! 🤪

@nixCraft That was the first programming language I was taught at university

@nixCraft Dang, that was one hell of an IDE for its day! Thanks for reminding me. And reminding me every great tool has an even greater successor.

@nixCraft yes, i start coding with it

@nixCraft This was my first IDE.

@nixCraft I vaguely remember doing something in Delphi which used Pascal. I kind of liked the language itself.

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Me! My uncle taught me programming with this!

@nixCraft I owned 5.0 and absolutely loved it. Still have the box around here somewhere.

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Boy have we been proud of the shit compiled in that one

@nixCraft remember it? I helped create it! I was one of the tech writers for the Dev team. One of the two best jobs I ever had. Borland was terrific.

@nixCraft Me! This we studied in the upper elementary school's computer classes. That was in the 1990's.

@nixCraft I taught an intro programming class in a high school using Turbo Pascal. 😮

@nixCraft my first real programing language was Turbo Pascal 5.0. Turbo Pascal’s IDE and compile time were really ahead of their time. I remember how disappointing the ADA compiler was that I had to use at the university later. It had no IDE to speak of.

@nixCraft I used Turbo Pascal when I was learning the language back in the late 80s. I would not be surprised if I still have the box for it buried in a box in my closet or garage.

@nixCraft the second programming language I learned (after basic). I even bought it as teenager. Good memories.

@nixCraft Still have my Turbo Pascal 6.0 Book.

@nixCraft I was taught it at school. I'd prefer to learn a real programming language instead

@nixCraft Took a class way back. Our startup used one of the buildings of the Boreland campus in Scott's Valley

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@nixCraft Damn. I forgot I learned Pascal on that program. Late 80s?

@nixCraft I started with 4.0 in 1991. First IDE ever, kinda sprang fully-formed in a world of CLI. Love at first sight.

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When I worked in a used bookstore people would bring in boxes of books for sale. Often found other things in there...

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