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Re:Pascal at Apple by boznz on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:50PM (#14824986)
Turbo Pascal was taught at most UK college in the 80's I think most electronic engineers and CS guys who went to school around then were exposed to it and you would be surprised how many PC/DOS programs in the 80's were written in it.
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Re:Pascal at Apple by bluedino on Saturday July 22, 2017 @09:32PM (#14830448)
Turbo Pascal seemed like the perfect language for writing DOS games in the early 90's. Fast, you didn't need to know low-level things but you could always patch in assembly routines if you needed to.
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Re:Pascal at Apple by phpnode on Saturday July 22, 2017 @04:41PM (#14829254)
Not just the 80s, until at least 2000 and probably a lot longer
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