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Paolo Amoroso

Julio Merino dived back into some decades old text mode editors and IDEs, particularly Borland's which were the pinnacle of this technology.

blogsystem5.substack.com/p/the

#ide #TurboPascal #retrocomputing

1 January at 12:39 | Open on fosstodon.org
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Guido Lehwalder

@amoroso
The TurboVision Editor looks also like these Turbo-* Editors from the DOS-Times:
github.com/magiblot/tvision
1 January at 13:05 | Open on mastodon.online
Paolo Amoroso

@guidol70 It was kind of an industry standard back then.

1 January at 13:07 | Open on fosstodon.org
Dhruva βš™οΈ

@amoroso My whole engineering undergrad project implementing a finite element solver in C was done in Borland IDE and `bcc` with high mem option for slightly larger address space required for matrix operations. This was 1994-96.

1 January at 13:13 | Open on hachyderm.io
Paolo Amoroso

@mechanicker How did it go? Was it a productive environment for the kind of development you did?

1 January at 13:14 | Open on fosstodon.org
Dhruva βš™οΈ

@amoroso I knew nothing and was a self taught programmer. Started with DOS editor `edit` and Borland IDE with a color monitor upgrade at school was a real blessing.

1 January at 13:23 | Open on hachyderm.io
Larry Smith
Paolo Amoroso

@stargazersmith They're still solid tools after so many years.

1 January at 13:41 | Open on fosstodon.org
Larry Smith

@amoroso
When the graphical user interface was introduced onto the computers of the time I thought that they were a maximum resource use of an interface, robbing the user of work resources.

It's a moot point with modern computers as they can easily support GUIs, but they are still largely a waste of resources.

1 January at 13:51 | Open on social.linux.pizza
Larry Smith

@amoroso
Or so I think. Other opinions differ.

1 January at 13:57 | Open on social.linux.pizza
Paolo Amoroso

@stargazersmith Okay but it was a good tradeoff overall as GUIs provided valuable improvements such as ease of use for many users.

1 January at 14:03 | Open on fosstodon.org
Marcos Lobo πŸ’™πŸ’›

@amoroso yeah, I remember those days. The most advanced edition at that time was the Borland c++ editor
1 January at 13:55 | Open on hachyderm.io
shuvit.org

@amoroso first game I ever made was in Borland c++.

1 January at 14:13 | Open on mastodon.social
Paolo Amoroso

@shuvit Was the environment productive for this kind of development?

1 January at 14:18 | Open on fosstodon.org
shuvit.org

@amoroso In the context of a UI discussion, I agree with the article. β€œThe crown jewel of IDEs, in my opinion, were the later Borland Turbo."
However, I used it for 2 classes, 8 months, lost access to it afterwards and was forced to abandon my projects with it (partly due to my ignorance). It provided me my first real lesson in portability, licensing, and the importance of owning the tools used. Never again for proprietary text editors.

1 January at 14:42 | Open on mastodon.social
signaleleven

@amoroso I used Borland Turbo C++ at school.
We were taught pure C (with the exception of cout<< for some reason), and I was sometimes using vim and gcc on the only Linux box in the school (2002). But I remember turbo.

1 January at 15:15 | Open on social.sdf.org
Alex Schroeder

@amoroso is remember seeing all these tools in the very early nineties and seeing instructions on how to use Turbo Pascal to write your own text editor. Too bad I never did!

1 January at 16:28 | Open on social.alexschroeder.ch
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