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rob05c  ·  3866 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Programming Sucks

    Turbo Pascal
The devil's gangrenous toenail. The GUI framework for the flagship product where I work is in Turbo Pascal.

Fixing problems is less a matter of logic, and more a question of how many goats you have to sacrifice and whether the moon is full.

No wonder you don't program anymore.





briandmyers  ·  3866 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Turbo Pascal may be reviled today, I don't know, but when it appeared in the world, it was some primo, A-1 tech. Like magic, I know, I used it. It came on a 360K floppy, a single floppy; didn't require a hard drive to run; contained a decent editor, compiler, and linker that could make your (then new-fangled) PC sit up and dance. It's all relative.