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40 years of Turbo Pascal
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
It is 40 years since Turbo Pascal revolutionized the coding marketplace with a slick (for the time) Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and performance to spare.
Turbo Pascal was released in 1983 and represented a shift from the traditional way programming tools worked in the early days of IBM PC compatibles.
Anders Hejlsberg, who would later go on to join Microsoft as part of the C# project, is widely credited as creator of the language, with Borland boss Philippe Kahn identifying the need for the all-in-one tool.
Object-oriented programming features turned up, including classes and inheritance, and a step-by-step debugger.
However, the steamroller of tools such as Visual Basic 3 ensured that Borland never had the same success in Windows that it enjoyed under DOS.
The language might have offended Pascal purists and the IDE seems a little clunky nowadays when compared to modern tools.
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