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by spamatica 904 days ago
And also incredibly small.

Turbo Pascal 2.0 had an IDE with compiler and debugger in a binary less than 60kb (if the info I found googling is true). Of course nowhere near the capabilities of modern environments but state of the art at the time.

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The debugging experience I had in Delphi 6-7 was still streets ahead of what I use today in Ruby.
>Turbo Pascal 2.0 had an IDE with compiler and debugger in a binary less than 60kb (if the info I found googling is true).

Turbo Pascal 3.0 had an IDE with compiler and debugger in a binary less than 40kb (if the info I found googling is true).

Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than

https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html

And it (initially at least) cost $50 vs. a few hundred dollars for other compilers of that period, like MS Pascal.