Turbo Pascal turns 41. who here remembers this one?

@nixCraft I remember even older one -- 5.5.

@nixCraft Wait, that interface was in color?? I only ever saw this on amber or green...

@nixCraft actually, its a hobby of mine still using it=)

@nixCraft That was the teaching language when I was in college.

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My first programming language! Took a class in high school, although I had done some basic batch scripting previously.

@nixCraft i started programming with it :)

@nixCraft of course. We did some TurboPascal in school.

@nixCraft My first was TP 2 for CP/M. I've used nearly every version since then, and currently use RAD Studio 12.2. TP 5.5 was a real eye opener as the first OOP Pascal.
Nowadays you can write for Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android and Linux in Pascal.
#DelphiCode

@nixCraft how did they copyright this on 92 AD?

@nixCraft learned programming Turbo Pascal 30 years ago in school, after I already knew Basic. Wrote some small tools like a locator calculator for Hamradio and distributed it via Packet Radio.

@nixCraft In 7th grade we learned programming in TurboPascal. Haven't used it since. I wish Scratch had been around back then.

@nixCraft my first programming language at college, of course I remember

@nixCraft0 Ofc, I learned programming at school with this!

@nixCraft I did some Pascal so it must have been Turbo Pascal...

But I have spent years coding in Borland C/C++ (formerly also Turbo C). Same IDE...

@nixCraft Oh yes I remember about that ... long time worked with it... Turbo Pascal / Borland Pascal and later Delphi.

@nixCraft TP7 had the best manuals (might even have them somewhere). Gem like "Recursive Loop; see Loop, Recursive" and "Loop, Recursive; see Recursive Loop" in the index.

@nixCraft I grew up with this, but on a monochrome amber hercules screen

@nixCraft I used Turbo Pascal 2 and later versions for a long time, I am even now kinda maintaining a DOS program using Borland Pascal 7 (I try to avoid any changes and I have been hoping to finally drop it for several years). Next year looks promising though. Then we will have migrated everything to Windows and Delphi, and it would probably be a good idea to start migrating to Linux.

@nixCraft i only used earlier versions

@nixCraft I started with Turbo Pascal 3.

@nixCraft I remember learning on version 5, then later version 6 and 7. My first experience with Object Orientation and their DOS based windowing framework Object Vision. Totally threw my professor at college who was teaching Pascal by completing the task in Object Pascal... First time he had seen it.

@nixCraft yep running under cp/m

@nixCraft Yes I remeber it very well!
So did my employer at the time. I wrote a little launcher program in Turbo Pascal for them to aid in launching several different programs for doing electrical measurements on Cathode Ray Tubes.
It was good enough to last past the turn of the century when the plant was demolished because all cathode ray tube production in Europe had been moved to eastern Asia.

@nixCraft It was my first programming language. Thank goodness it was not Basic or Visual Basic.

@nixCraft This is my childhood. I’ve spent many years in that UI.

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Turbo PASCAL was an amazing prodect, for it's time! Got me through college.

@nixCraft I was there!

@nixCraft the source code highlighting that was enough!

@nixCraft peak IDE design

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I gave boxes of the first release to my friends and family for Christmas.

@nixCraft @btaroli It's what I learnt to program in at college 👴🏻

@nixCraft I mean I remember it, as an Apple // user using Apple Pascal I cast it askance glance, but yeah. I remember it.

@nixCraft Yes.

@nixCraft so many memories, I've seen it for the first time ~26 years ago at the high school