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Re:Show HN: Spade, A simple programming language with a TUI IDE by pjmlp on Saturday January 15, 2022 @03:34PM (#29949974)
If that was the point I would have linked the Turbo Pascal 6.0 Turbo Vision based IDE.

I linked the TP 3 due to the minimalist remark.

Re:Show HN: Spade, A simple programming language with a TUI IDE by badsectoracula on Saturday January 15, 2022 @07:32PM (#29952021)
FWIW this isn't really TP3, just a skin over a vaguely TP-like compiler - the first thing i did when i pressed E was to type Ctrl+K D to exit the editor and it just focused Firefox's location bar :-P. Then i noticed it was just a regular textarea editor.

But it is indeed a neat minimalistic environment. I used it in a video ~10 years ago to make a simple text based game (i was pretty much improvising the entire thing while i was writing it :-P):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYwHQpvMZTE

Re:Show HN: Spade, A simple programming language with a TUI IDE by pjmlp on Sunday January 16, 2022 @02:06AM (#29954058)
Of course it isn't, I could as well just have mentioned TP 3.0 and leave it there.

However I bothered to try to find out something to show to others.

TP 3.0 was my first Turbo Pascal, I had floppy with it alongside MS-DOS 3.3, to carry around into highschool computer lab.