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Re:They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pas... by msdz on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:59AM (#50406055)
As someone born after the release of TP 7, this was a fascinating read!

I wouldn’t necessarily have expected for Microsoft to make development (at least the “intended” way) for early not-just-DOS Windows this unergonomic, but now in hindsight, it’s also not that surprising, really.

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Re:They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pas... by quaffcode on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:17AM (#50411935)
Not sure it's fair to say they made then unergonomic in some deliberate or neglectful way. Just that Turbo Pascal was a remarkable program.

From the article:

> If there had been a ‘Turbo Pascal for Linux’ in the early 90s, then we might all be running Linux on our desktops today.

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