I also really liked Turbo Pascal. Then in 1986 or 7 I learned Smalltalk, and it is still my favourite OO language by far, although unfortunately I did not do anything with it in the last 20 years :(.
>I really liked Turbo Pascal. I started with that in my first data structures course in college and it was far and away superior to anything I had used until then.
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>REAL fast, stable, well documented. Nothing like it until I met FoxPro/Dos 0.96. (FoxBase+ and 386 were real fast but it really didn't have any other outstanding features).
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>They don't make 'em like that anymore.
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>My first couple of years as a developer were based on Turbo Pascal.
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