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Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS – Pascal for Small Machines

23 points by rbanffy ago | 4 comments

jshaqaw |next [-]

Pascal will always have my heart. My first bridge outside Basic (I was stuck with a home pc so didn’t go down the assembly rabbit hole like others of my generation). Turbo Pascal’s IDE. Add it possible for a kid to learn and create in a way I never would have done if stuck with a collection of semi independent tools. for those who say just use the command line - this was 1989. DOS was not exactly today’s modern shell environment!

pjmlp |next |previous [-]

I guess today is Pascal's day.

This website is full of goodies for anyone that cares about history of Niklaus Wirth created languages.

anthk |next |previous [-]

Simlar language, compatible with MSDOS, CP/M and Unix:

https://t3x.org/t3x/0/index.html

iberator |previous [-]

Early versions (3?) could fit an amazing editor, assembler, compiler, debugger and whole IDE in just 120kb(!!!) of disk space.

Vim looks pathetic in comparison to it...