https://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2023-november-turbopascal40.html Toggle navigation * Home * RSS Feed * Comments * Archive (1679) * Author + Links Marco Tech Blog [bloghead] November 28, 2023 Turbo Pascal turns 40 Turbo Pascal was introduced by Borland in November 1983. It's officially turning 40 years old this month. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Turbo Pascal was a milestone product for the industry, it started Borland as a company and it was the first popular Integrated Development Environment or IDE. It was a great product for the time, and its success was incredible. You can read more about Turbo Pascal it in this recent blog post from David I, but also on Wikipedia and many other sources including blog posts of mine, including the talk I did this summer in the first Pascal World Congress in Salamanca. At Embarcadero, the company continuing working on the successors of Turbo Pascal, we just shipped version 36 of that compiler. In fact when you read "Embarcadero Delphi for Win32 compiler version 36.0" (the version of the command line compiler in Delphi 12 Athens) the compiler version number, 36, dates back to the first Turbo Pascal. Not only that, we decided to dedicate the product Easter Egg to this great anniversary. Happy 40th birthday, Turbo Pascal! [turbopasca] --------------------------------------------------------------------- posted by marcocantu @ 4:17PM | 8 Comments [0 Pending] 8 Comments Turbo Pascal turns 40 In the early days, compilers were mostly a pain, interpreted basic was slow and awful. The editors were bad, the tools were limited to batch files. Turbo Pascal was so fast, compiling and runtime, and it was so easy to edit, compile and run. Later, forgot what version, the ability to run assembler code was a big upgrade. One of my favorite tools of all time! Comment by Randy Lea on November 28, 22:26 Turbo Pascal turns 40 Very cool but you need not that semicolon before "end" statement Comment by Liviu on November 29, 00:38 Turbo Pascal turns 40 Happy 40! Comment by Paul Max [ ] on November 29, 01:05 Turbo Pascal turns 40 I remember my aunt being in university 25 years ago, and me trying to login on her computer and the first program that I found was Turbo Pascal. And I still believe that until now it is one of the main reasons I went into programming. Happy 40 Turbo Pascal! Comment by Elias Bourgess [https://ebourgess.dev] on November 29, 07:31 Turbo Pascal turns 40 You are right, we Pascal uses semicolons as statement separator, not as a statement terminator like curly brace languages. But it doesn't mind an extra semicolon... Comment by Marco Cantu [http://www.marcocantu.com] on November 29, 09:16 Turbo Pascal turns 40 It was Turbo Pascal that I used on the 'new' PCs when introduced at Uni, loved the IDE compared to the very slow Pascal on old Prime mainframe and terminals that we had to use before. Then got a job, chose the similar IDE of Borland C++ (with GEM GUI), and when it came time to move to Windows, it was an easy choice - Delphi! Been using it ever since, just updating almost a million lines of code to Delphi 12. The moral of the story is - give your product free to Universities and Students and you may get a lifetime of professional loyalty! Comment by Chris Mark [http://www.edinst.com] on November 29, 10:16 Turbo Pascal turns 40 Turbo Pascal wasn't my first programing language, but it was the one I fell in love with. I learned it in a high school CS class and used it in programming contests, even going to state competition. Moved to C in college, but Turbo Pascal will always be my first love. Comment by Lachlan [http://lachlanlife.net] on November 29, 11:50 Turbo Pascal turns 40 Turbo Pascal is my first lang! Happy 40! Comment by DW on November 29, 16:51 Post Your Comment Click here for posting your feedback to this blog. There are currently 0 pending (unapproved) messages. * [twi] * [fac] * [git] A blog about Delphi programming, Embarcadero, XML, Web 2.0, JavaScript, and anything else Marco is working on and has worked on in the past. Site content is copyright Marco Cantu' 2005-2020. Powered by Bootstrap and Delphi. Back to top