@jamesog i cut my language teeth on #BASIC and #Pascal on my #Apple2e (and a bunch of #PET and #TRS80) back in the day. By college (1988) I was using #C, #LISP, et al on a variety of systems. I used #TurboPascal and #TurboC on a few college projects. Oh and #shell scripting. Lots of shell scripting. Ironically, I never touched #COBOL until I began work after college. Hehe #RetroComputing
@nixCraft Never used that newfangled stuff - I 
started using TP3 at @KIT_Karlsruhe (then still Universität Karlsruhe) in 1987 and changed (unenthusiatically) to #FORTRAN after TP5.
Still have the complete boxes with disks and books of TP3 and TP5 here somewhere.
#Pascal #TurboPascal #Retrocomputing
You can enjoy a nostalgic DOS-ish experience in your modern terminals using turbo, a tubo-pascal/turboc inpired editor based on the modern port of turbovision. Supports all the old goodies such as splits, floating windows etc ...
There is also tvterm which is a WIP but its useable.
I found the best book: "An introduction to retro game programming with antique Turbo PASCAL compatible Graph units on Free Pascal" but it's only in Japanese 
I love that Turbo Pascal is "antique", LMAO.
Rediscovering Turbo Pascal
— Paolo Amoroso
｢ Sitting at a sweet spot between ease of use, features, and power, Turbo Pascal is a perfect fit for CP/M as it consumes limited resources, generates moderatly small and fast executables, and can access all the features of the system. That's why it's a good environment for quickly developing small tools or programs for the Z80-MBC2 and V20-MBC ｣
Kevin Boone: They don’t make ’em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7
｢ TP 7, also known as Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5, was the pinnacle of the Turbo Pascal line, and its end. The name ‘Turbo’ was associated with what were regarded as hobbyist products – ‘Borland Pascal’ was a different, much more expensive, product. But Turbo Pascal was enough for some quite substantial applications, and was very affordable ｣
I'm still salty over the fact that someone tried to make me learn #TurboPascal once upon a time.
NOW DUMPED: Turbo Pascal 6.0 for the NEC PC-9801 #retrocomputing #pc98 #pc9801 #pascal #turbopascal #dos
Another two books for the collection. Those are for advance programming. All for the classic Turbo Pascal and DOS :)
Works on 286/386 processors (emulated). Works perfectly fine on my i5 bare meal too :)
Beginning of displaying ANSI files in Turbo Pascal. Just a few colors works at the moment.
I need this for future projects.
Now you can program Neo6502 in Mad-Pascal (32-bit Turbo Pascal)! https://olimex.wordpress.com/2024/02/05/did-you-ever-hear-for-mad-pascal-now-you-can-program-neo6502-with-this-32-bit-turbo-pascal-for-atari-xl-xe-compiler/ #6502 #retrocomputing #retrogaming #pascal #turbopascal #madpascal
Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen. Einführung in das Programmieren mit #TurboPascal, und unvergesslich: Software-Engineering mit #Modula-2 bei #ReinhardKöhler. Hier ein #Nachruf für Niklaus #Wirth: https://www.golem.de/news/nachruf-informatiker-und-pascal-erfinder-niklaus-wirth-gestorben-2401-180806.html
#Pascal (Borland #TurboPascal) was one of the first programming languages I came in contact with as a teenager. Thank you Niklaus #Wirth for creating this beautiful language.
RIP Niklaus Wirth
RIP Niklaus #Wirth. Wirth's #Pascal was among the first programming languages I actually enjoyed, after love-hate with #Fortran, #AssemblyLanguage and #PL1. I did loads of programming in Pascal in the 1970s and 1980s, on #DEC10s, #Vaxen and on the first IBM PCs (#TurboPascal). Then, #Modula. If you are using a #Logitech device today (I am!), that's another outcome of Wirth's vast oeuvre!
