Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than (2011)
programming in thetwenty-first centuryIt’s not about technology for its own sake. It’s about being able to implement your ideas.Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller ThanTurbo Pascal 3 for MS-DOS was released in September 1986. Being version 3, there were lesser releases prior to it and flashier ones after, but 3 was a solid representation of the Turbo Pascal experience: a full Pascal compiler, including extensions that it made it practical for commercial use, tightly integrated with an editor. And the whole thing was lightning fast, orders of magnitude faster at building projects than Microsoft’s compilers.The entire Turbo Pascal 3.02 executable–the compiler and IDE–was 39,731 bytes. How does that stack up in 2011 terms? Here are some things that Turbo Pascal is smaller than, as of…
