Turbo-Pascal was quite popular. At the annnouncement of it (West Coast
Computer Faire), Phillipe Kahn (Borland) was so inundated with "yeah,
but what about C?" questions, that by the end of the first day, "Turbo
C is coming soon"
On Thu, 9 May 2024, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
I learned on Turbo C. It was a fantastic little IDE.
I have heard that Pascal was originally developed for TEACHING programming.
Turbo Pascal makes that easier.
In my C programming classes, for every homework assignment, I required
that the students submit the output (screen print), a source file, and a
screen print of the portion of the directory, to show that they had
created a source file and an executable file. And that the executable
file was created AFTER the source file was created; a surprising number
were NOT.
We had available Turbo C and Quick C, as well as Microsoft C compiler,
DeSmet ("Personal C"), and GCC compilers. and occasionally a few others.
I required that each student had to do one program in an IDE, and one with
a command line compiler. After they had shown that they COULD do both,
then they could use whatever they wanted for subsequent assignments.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred [email protected]
