Borland Turbo Basic

Re:Borland Turbo Basic by KellyCriterion on Monday October 05, 2026 @01:19PM (#49967686)

OT:

Turbo Pascal was just genius, really!

Esp. the lightspeed compile times, and that you could create a redist exe-file to copy your "highly sophisticated games" to your friends and show them, how cool it is :-))

Good ol times!

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Re:Borland Turbo Basic by gramie on Monday October 05, 2026 @02:28PM (#49968589)

That was true even into the Delphi days. Around 2007 I was able to compile about 400,000 lines of code in 2-3 seconds on my desktop.

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Re:Borland Turbo Basic by KellyCriterion on Monday October 05, 2026 @02:56PM (#49968935)

For sure! Delphi is the successor of Turbo Pascal, it came with the same features built-in! :-)

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Re:Borland Turbo Basic by mikewarot on Monday October 05, 2026 @09:39PM (#49973116)

FYI: Lazarus and the Free Pascal compiler are open source, and amazing replacements. The fly in the ointment is the documentation, which leaves a lot to be desired.

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Re:Borland Turbo Basic by KellyCriterion on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:07AM (#49977267)

Thanks for mentioning!

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