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[Thomas Passin]

On 1/2/2023 3:01 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 02/01/2023 02:14, avi.e.gross at gmail.com wrote:
>> I used PASCAL before C and I felt like I was wearing a straitjacket at times
>> in PASCAL when I was trying to write encryption/decryption functions and had
>> to find ways to fiddle with bits. Similar things were easy in C, and are
>> even easier in many more recent languages such as Python.
> 
> That's true of pure Pascal. But Thomas was talking about Turbo Pascal
> which had extra functions and features for all those "real world" type
> things. (And you could insert some inline assembler if all else failed)
> It also relaxed the ludicrously strict typing slightly. Turbo Pascal
> made Pascal a joy and I still use Delphi for Windows programming today.

If Python weren't around, I might be doing that myself.

> TP also introduced classes to Pascal (although Apple had already done
> so for the Mac and Borland basically ported the syntax to the PC).

That was V5.5, wasn't it?  Classes were a hugely useful extension to TP. 
  I used a version with classes (a later version that had a graphics 
primitives module) to write a window manager (in DOS graphics mode, all 
350 X 200 pixels of it).