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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 13:22:58 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Turbo Pascal turns 41. who here remembers this one?

   • sashk 🇺🇦 (sashk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 13:28:05 JST sashk 🇺🇦

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     @nixCraft I remember even older one -- 5.5.

   • Phoenix Gee (phoenixgee@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 13:31:08 JST Phoenix Gee

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     @nixCraft Wait, that interface was in color?? I only ever saw this on amber or green...

   • BigLinter (biglinter@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 13:36:10 JST BigLinter

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     @nixCraft actually, its a hobby of mine still using it=)

   • Seth Galitzer (sgsax@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 13:36:42 JST Seth Galitzer

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     @nixCraft That was the teaching language when I was in college.

   • 李颖 (liying@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 13:37:25 JST 李颖

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     @nixCraft
     I used version 6.5

   • Perrin42 (perrin42@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 14:19:02 JST Perrin42

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     @nixCraft

     My first programming language! Took a class in high school, although I had done some basic batch scripting previously.

   • Fabien LOISON (FLOZz) (flozz@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 14:28:22 JST Fabien LOISON (FLOZz)

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     @nixCraft i started programming with it :)

   • Matti Järvinen (nemeciii@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 15:01:26 JST Matti Järvinen

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     @nixCraft of course. We did some TurboPascal in school.

   • Lars Fosdal (larsfosdal@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 15:53:45 JST Lars Fosdal

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     @nixCraft My first was TP 2 for CP/M. I've used nearly every version since then, and currently use RAD Studio 12.2. TP 5.5 was a real eye opener as the first OOP Pascal.
     Nowadays you can write for Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android and Linux in Pascal.
     #DelphiCode

   • Kaito (kaito02@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 16:47:19 JST Kaito

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     @nixCraft how did they copyright this on 92 AD?

   • Max (maxed9@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 17:06:46 JST Max

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     @nixCraft learned programming Turbo Pascal 30 years ago in school, after I already knew Basic. Wrote some small tools like a locator calculator for Hamradio and distributed it via Packet Radio.

   • Tina (spinni81@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 17:18:45 JST Tina

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     @nixCraft In 7th grade we learned programming in TurboPascal. Haven't used it since. I wish Scratch had been around back then.

   • Epistomai (epistomai@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 17:24:43 JST Epistomai

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     @nixCraft my first programming language at college, of course I remember

   • Scotty Trees (scottytrees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 17:26:35 JST Scotty Trees

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     @nixCraft I wasn’t even born yet dude!

   • Santhor (santhor@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 17:28:43 JST Santhor

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     @nixCraft0 Ofc, I learned programming at school with this!

   • Karl Heinz Marbaise (he/him) (khmarbaise@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 17:49:55 JST Karl Heinz Marbaise (he/him)

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     @nixCraft Oh yes I remember about that ... long time worked with it... Turbo Pascal / Borland Pascal and later Delphi.

   • username2000 (username2000@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 17:55:42 JST username2000

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     @nixCraft I'm still using it

   • David Ingram 🌻🍍🥝📡⚡ (ingram@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 17:58:18 JST David Ingram 🌻🍍🥝📡⚡

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     @nixCraft TP7 had the best manuals (might even have them somewhere). Gem like "Recursive Loop; see Loop, Recursive" and "Loop, Recursive; see Recursive Loop" in the index.

   • Harm (flipsels@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 17:58:50 JST Harm

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     @nixCraft I grew up with this, but on a monochrome amber hercules screen

   • dummzeuch (dummzeuch@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 18:09:18 JST dummzeuch

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     @nixCraft I used Turbo Pascal 2 and later versions for a long time, I am even now kinda maintaining a DOS program using Borland Pascal 7 (I try to avoid any changes and I have been hoping to finally drop it for several years). Next year looks promising though. Then we will have migrated everything to Windows and Delphi, and it would probably be a good idea to start migrating to Linux.

   • Peter Sommerlad (petersommerlad@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 18:41:51 JST Peter Sommerlad

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     @nixCraft i only used earlier versions

   • Truls (truls46@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 18:53:24 JST Truls

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     @nixCraft Absolutely. After I got my first PC/AT (80286) I couldn't believe how fast it compiled my programs. I re-compiled them two or three times, because I thought it didn't do anything.

   • radioscout (radioscout@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 19:49:13 JST radioscout

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     @nixCraft I started with Turbo Pascal 3.

   • Trikkitt (trikkitt@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 20:21:56 JST Trikkitt

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     @nixCraft I remember learning on version 5, then later version 6 and 7. My first experience with Object Orientation and their DOS based windowing framework Object Vision. Totally threw my professor at college who was teaching Pascal by completing the task in Object Pascal... First time he had seen it.

   • Jake (jake_t12@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 20:35:22 JST Jake

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     @nixCraft yep running under cp/m

   • Ferdi Scholten (ferdi_scholten@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 20:44:47 JST Ferdi Scholten

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     @nixCraft Yes I remeber it very well!
     So did my employer at the time. I wrote a little launcher program in Turbo Pascal for them to aid in launching several different programs for doing electrical measurements on Cathode Ray Tubes.
     It was good enough to last past the turn of the century when the plant was demolished because all cathode ray tube production in Europe had been moved to eastern Asia.

   • 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦 (methylcobalamin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 20:52:19 JST 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦

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     @nixCraft It was my first programming language. Thank goodness it was not Basic or Visual Basic.

   • Mikael Lundin 🍀🥦♻️ (mikaellundin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 22:00:31 JST Mikael Lundin 🍀🥦♻️

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     @nixCraft This is my childhood. I’ve spent many years in that UI.

   • Jeff Grigg (jeffgrigg@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 23:49:05 JST Jeff Grigg

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     @nixCraft

     Turbo PASCAL was an amazing prodect, for it's time! Got me through college.

   • Doug Park (parkdn@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 00:16:33 JST Doug Park

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     @nixCraft I was there!

   • Marcin Krzyzanowski (krzyzanowskim@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 01:18:33 JST Marcin Krzyzanowski

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     @nixCraft the source code highlighting that was enough!

   • armadillosoft (armadillosoft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 17:19:55 JST armadillosoft

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     @nixCraft

     I gave boxes of the first release to my friends and family for Christmas.

   • bokontep (bokontep@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 18:22:58 JST bokontep

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     @nixCraft το καλύτερο IDE με διαφορά!!!

   • James O'Gorman (jamesog@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 01:15:10 JST James O'Gorman

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     • Bill Taroli :neurodiversity:

     @nixCraft @btaroli It's what I learnt to program in at college 👴🏻

   • Bill Lloyd (wklj@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 04:40:00 JST Bill Lloyd

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     @nixCraft I mean I remember it, as an Apple // user using Apple Pascal I cast it askance glance, but yeah. I remember it.

   • Michele Adduci (madduci@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 01:31:03 JST Michele Adduci

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     @nixCraft so many memories, I've seen it for the first time ~26 years ago at the high school