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Re:Rediscovering Turbo Pascal by JKCalhoun on Sunday September 01, 2024 @09:44AM (#41416925)
Turbo Pascal was my first "real" language. Not CP/M, but Macintosh, ha ha.

I was recently able to recover some games I wrote in the late 80's, early 90's and to get some of them to function correctly I had to re-learn Pascal. That too was a rabbit hole.

Re:Rediscovering Turbo Pascal by murrayb on Sunday September 01, 2024 @09:59AM (#41417039)
Also the first real programming language I learned, on an early version of DOS (3.?). I wrote a utility to encode data which was burnt to Eeproms for VHF radio's (fixed base units) I don't remember the details but it was cool to write a tool to solve a problem. Fun times.
Re:Rediscovering Turbo Pascal by GiorgioG on Sunday September 01, 2024 @10:00AM (#41417040)
Same here - I still have my Turbo Pascal 5.0 install disks!
Re:Rediscovering Turbo Pascal by 7ep on Sunday September 01, 2024 @10:16AM (#41417145)
same. I even have my first disk of turbo pascal programs, written by my grandad, on github: https://github.com/byronka/turbopascal