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Re:Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022) by wiz21c on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @11:27AM (#37845710)
Inline assembler was a killer feature: you could optimize bits of your code without having to understand how an assembler works and without having to deal with a linker as Pascal compiler did everything itself.

Great time indeed !

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Re:Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022) by foobarian on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @12:05PM (#37846278)
Not to mention you had a running program milliseconds after Ctrl-F9. I get modern apps require so much more stuff to run but I still miss that zippy experience.
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Re:Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022) by wiz21c on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:37AM (#37854810)
+1 for the fast compile time. TurboPascal was not a marketing name, it was that fast, including my old 386 machine.

But TBH, nowaday's compilers do so much more, I'll happily trade compile time for that !

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