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Re:‏ 21compilers and 3 orders of magnitude in 60 minutes [pdf] by no-such-address on Sunday April 14, 2019 @08:07AM (#19658907)
The information and know-how in this talk is amazing.

It would be interesting to know the author's thoughts about other early influential software in the early PC era, such as the UCSD P-system (was UCSD Pascal an early version of Turbo Pascal?) and Microsoft Basic (fitting the whole interpreter, including floating point arithmetic emulation into 6.5K of RAM on an Intel 8080 seems like a minor miracle today.)

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Re:‏ 21compilers and 3 orders of magnitude in 60 minutes [pdf] by pjmlp on Sunday April 14, 2019 @01:56PM (#19660710)
For those that want to know more about how Turbo Pascal came to be, there are a very interesting interviews with Anders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JckLuXcovl8&feature=youtu.be...

https://behindthetech.libsynpro.com/001-anders-hejlsberg-a-c...

https://www.welcometothejungle.co/fr/articles/anders-hejlsbe...

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