Borland Turbo Pascal V2 was the real turning point for me.... all on a 360Kb floppy and only about 50 UK Pounds. I wrote a myriad of business apps with it and started my first self employed business on the back of it. It was magical to demonstrate the speed, ease of use and flexibility to all my ex ICL colleagues who were still working on mainframes at the time. Turbo Pascal, Sidekick to multi task and edit meant you could write virtually anything.
I then progressed to Turbo Pascal 3 and FoxBase/Foxplus etc. on DOS and SCO Xenix as well as other xBase products starting mainly with Dbase II. III and IV, Nantucket Clipper V4.3 which was super-fast and ultra reliable. CA Visual Objects was the first product to encompass Objects into an "xBase like" framework but I never got on with it as it was too regimented and structured for my liking despite buying it along with RBase 2 and 3, an Ashton Tate product that was a good attempt at generating multi tier relational database models. Oh happy days and I still have all the original software, manuals and disks!! Dave -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 05 September 2017 09:18 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy My first real programming outside 8-bit home computers was Pascal on a VAX II/780 mainframe. 15 minutes to compile when the lab was busy. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, at 04:56 PM, [email protected] wrote: > On 2017-09-01 03:31, Dave Crozier wrote: > > Brilliant ingenuity! > > > > I started on Fortran, Algol 60 and COBOL but only liked Algol and > > went on to love Pascal obviously. > > > Loved loved loved Pascal way back in the late 80s/early 90s. I think > somebody said that Delphi is today's Pascal? > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
