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[Thomas Passin]

On 1/2/2023 5:01 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2023-01-02, Alan Gauld <learn2program at gmail.com> 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.
>>
>> TP also introduced classes to Pascal (although Apple had already done
>> so for the Mac and Borland basically ported the syntax to the PC).
> 
> TP was indeed a joy to work with. It made it trivial to do simple
> graphics on an IBM-PC and it was FAST -- both to write in, to debug,
> and in raw execution speed.

FAST, yes, even with 256K memory and only floppy drives - my first PC 
(compatible) machine.