Turbo Pascal

It's what I went to school for many, many, many years ago.

Shout out to Turbo Pascal and Visual C++.

All my programmer friends out there of a certain age will get that.

And I decided to give it a go.

And the first version was DOS.

I used Turbo Pascal.

Which was...

They taught that at the local college I went to.

And I mean, I was doing it in basic, I think was the last time as a kid, I finished a game.

I was trying in Turbo Pascal, and then C and then, oh, C++ was awesome.

But Java came along and all my programmers out there, if you're old enough, wow, object oriented programming changed the world.

Back then, in the late 90s.

He says, during that, we talked about Turbo C, TurboC.

Yeah, Turbo Pascal.

He says he recalls reading that Microsoft was amazed that Turbo Pascal compiled so much faster than their compilers.

Is there an easy explanation for why it was faster? Not that

I know of.

I think the Microsoft

ones emitted P code, not native machine code.

And the Borland Turbo Pascal emitted native machine code.

Well, each journey is, is different.

Uh, I mean, like, the first project I worked on, Turbo Pascal, I, I think that project started back in the old days when it was 8-bit micros and 64K of memory, and one person could do everything themselves and have ultimate control of everything.

And so I was very much a one-man shop, right? But that quickly was not scalable, right? And, and, and capacities of machines that we went from sixty-four to 640K, and then, then kaboom.

The, the, the, the lid went off, right? And you could have as much memory as you wanted.

[laughs] Well, it's, it's almost like I got a counter story to the, to the letting, letting go there, because in the C# project, um, my main function was not implementing the, the C# compiler.

It was being the language designer and writing the spec and designing all the new language features.

And before that, when I, when I had worked on Turbo Pascal, I was, I was doing a bunch of active coding, you know, on, on the thing itself, right? But then I sorta let go of that, but I let go of it too much, and I sorta drifted up into the stratosphere and became more of an architecture astronaut.

Do, do you know what I mean? And, and, and I wasn't getting my hands dirty.