[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 !