Internals of a Turbo Pascal Compiler

Re:Internals of a Turbo Pascal Compiler by vetinari on Friday September 11, 2015 @10:40AM (#10203899)

I learned programming by digging through TP6 online help.

That and Ralf Brown's Interrupt List, so I could do something useful.

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Re:Internals of a Turbo Pascal Compiler by analog31 on Friday September 11, 2015 @01:25PM (#10204957)

Oops! What I meant was, there was no such thing as "online" at all, when TP1 came out. ;-)

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Re:Internals of a Turbo Pascal Compiler by vetinari on Friday September 11, 2015 @05:37PM (#10206310)

Online as in "hlp file that's shown when you press F1". At the time online meant "not printed" :-)

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Re:Internals of a Turbo Pascal Compiler by analog31 on Friday September 11, 2015 @06:28PM (#10206490)

Ah, yes. Now I get it. I'm kinda slow on the uptake sometimes. ;-)

I stopped with TP5. At that point, I was up to my ears in my thesis project, and was not going to change any of my tools. Plus I'm a real tightwad. By the time I finally finished my degree, got a new job, and a new computer, it was an Apple Mac. And the modern OS's kind of killed my interest in programming for a while.

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