Sean Hoffman
Nov 15, 2022

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In its original form, Turbo Pascal was very much plain-old-Pascal with the twist of having an IDE (it may have been the first IDE ever, in fact). In other words, none of the object-oriented stuff that would come later was present.

I know this because in my Pascal class in college, we were supposed to use UCSD Pascal on the Apple, but I stumbled across Turbo Pascal on the IBM PC and it was so much faster to develop and iterate on that I wrote everything in Turbo Pascal and turned in my assignments in UCSD.

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Sean Hoffman
Sean Hoffman

Written by Sean Hoffman

Software Developer (C++, C#, Go, others), Husband, Father. I eat fried potatoes annually on July 14th.

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