Memories of Turbo Pascal version 1.0

[jwilliams]

http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2008/11/09/39041

[bootload]

"... Native code compiler Turbo Pascal lives on in Delphi 2009 - if you haven't tried it yet, get the trial download at http://www.codegear.com/downloads ..."

Forget codegear ("burnt way too many times by borland") Try http://www.freepascal.org instead. It's free and has TP compatibility. Comes in handy for learning how to write compilers ~ http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

[davo11 → bootload]

Codegear is no longer part of Borland it's a new ball game, worth another look imho

[dshah]

Any Turbo Pascal folks remember OWL (Object Windows Library)?

This was the first OOP framework I was exposed to.

[rbanffy → dshah]

I used it, but I used it with Actor 3 (a Smalltalk-ish environment) under Windows.

Having done stuff with Actor and later studying Smalltalk made me resist nearly a decade before learning C++. It simply looked like a step in the wrong direction.

[zandorg]

Turbo C++ was my first C++ compiler. I literally stole it from college when I got access to a machine and copied it onto 10 floppy disks.