Go is boring, and that’s fantastic

Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by loopz on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:10PM (#23714800)

At the time, Borland and Watcom C++ just blew Turbo Pascal out of the water. There was no competition, feature and performance-wise. Also OO, which became another things..

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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by ThinkBeat on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:22PM (#23715606)

um. Turbo Pascal was owned by Borland at that time. They did buy the company that invented it for sure.

TP executables were fast. Compared favorably to C++. The compile-time was also very fast.

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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by dnautics on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:56PM (#23716057)

I think parent meant "Borland c++ blew away Borland turbo pascal". I can confirm this, as in highschool I (painfully) ported my science fair project from tp to Borland c++ specifically for this reason and saw a ~2x speedup.

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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by asah on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:34PM (#23715775)

can confirm.

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