Re:Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)
by badsectoracula on Saturday April 11, 2020 @05:53PM
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AFAIK the first "IDE" was the one in the original BASIC, or at least the first one to called that. It was command-line based (no fancy GUIs back then) but it allowed editing, debugging and compiling (despite BASIC dialects being commonly interpreted, the original BASIC was a compiler) from the same environment.
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Re:Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)
by analog31 on Saturday April 11, 2020 @07:08PM
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BEEP...
BASIC >
I have to admit that I still judge programming tools, and in fact, entire computers, against the beloved BASIC prompt. You flipped a switch, got a BEEP, and 3 seconds later, you were in heaven.
Today the closest thing for me is firing up a PC and opening a Jupyter notebook. But it's certainly not the same.
Re:Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)
by dhosek on Saturday April 11, 2020 @11:03PM
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I remember wondering how on earth you could write Pascal programs without line numbers since that was the difference between running a command and entering/editing a program in the Apple ][ environment. I don't remember if Apple Pascal had what would qualify as an IDE now, although it had its own OS which made it less attractive to me.
Re:Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)
by zozbot234 on Saturday April 11, 2020 @11:09PM
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> I remember wondering how on earth you could write Pascal programs without line numbers
You use a program called EDLIN that writes the line numbers for you, and even renumbers your lines automatically whenever you have to insert something in the middle of your program. It's really neat!
Re:Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)
by pjmlp on Sunday April 12, 2020 @02:37AM
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I did my first text processing exam using edlin, "It's really neat!" isn't something I would use to describe it.