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by pinewurst 2619 days ago
Similarly enough I went from BASIC to Pascal to C. Actually I tried to go from BASIC to C, but that was a bridge too far due to my lack of visceral appreciation for structure. At that time, Turbo Pascal was a god-send as a development environment - crazy fast, decent editor and library all in one tiny thing. In some sense, I owe any advancement in CS to that tool.