XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Thu, 1 Jan 2026 23:54:37 -0000 (UTC), Waldek Hebisch wrote:   
      
   > IMO biggest drawback of Turbo Pascal was poor speed of generated code   
   > (and size too).  For me deal breaker was fact that Turbo Pascal was   
   > 16-bit and tied to DOS.  DJGCC gave me 32-bit integers and slightly   
   > later I switched to Linux, so Turbo Pascal was not longer relevant for   
   > me.  But if you were programming 16-bit DOS and did not mind poor speed   
   > of generated code, than IMO Turbo Pascal was quite decent programming   
   > language, quite competitive in expressivity to C.   
      
   I never used the DOS TurboPascal, only the CP/M version. I used the BDS C   
   subset compiler on CP/M and moved to DJGPP eventually.   
      
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