[soliton4]

pascal was the 2nd language i learned after basic and it was the best time of my learning life. the fact that you could add inline assembler code and the early attempts of object oriented programming were amazing. it was turbo pascal 6.0 btw.

[wiz21c]

Inline assembler was a killer feature: you could optimize bits of your code without having to understand how an assembler works and without having to deal with a linker as Pascal compiler did everything itself.

Great time indeed !

[foobarian]

Not to mention you had a running program milliseconds after Ctrl-F9. I get modern apps require so much more stuff to run but I still miss that zippy experience.

[wiz21c]

+1 for the fast compile time. TurboPascal was not a marketing name, it was that fast, including my old 386 machine.

But TBH, nowaday's compilers do so much more, I'll happily trade compile time for that !