17 engineers on Hacker News describe using Turbo Pascal first-hand: 8 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I was so impressed... It's similar to the respect I have for the work of Anders Hejlsberg, who created Turbo Pascal, with which I learned to program”
endorse · personal · lioeters · 2025-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched from UCSD to Turbo Pascal, which only needed one floppy and just absolutely blazed.”
endorse · personal · linsomniac · 2023-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Turbo Pascal 3.0 was only 30-40kb - Even later Borland could keep up to a single disk.”
endorse · personal · malkia · 2023-08-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the Borland TurboPascal compiler was a breeze to use.”
endorse · personal · vivegi · 2022-09-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used to pay for a programming language, Turbo Pascal, which then became Delphi. Then Borland went crazy and started pushing C++, and raising the prices”
regret · personal · mikewarot · 2021-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“turbo pascal at the time. ... The turbo pascal program did it in five or less per disk without issue.”
endorse · production · Shivetya · 2016-05-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The small tribe I ran with then found Turbo Pascal wanting”
regret · personal · ArkyBeagle · 2014-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Though pascal (and TP in general) was a huge step up compared to other "modern" classes”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · tenfingers · 2014-07-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the ui in turbo pascal (over a serial line) which worked well”
endorse · production · eckyptang · 2012-09-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I cut my computing teeth on Wordstar and Turbo Pascal”
neutral · personal · deepspace · 2023-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Soon I transitioned into a more advanced computer room with a bunch of 286s ... where I picked up Turbo Pascal.”
neutral · personal · romanhn · 2022-06-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“first being done in Turbo Pascal, then Delphi, and then under my stewardship we moved to C#.”
neutral · production · mb_72 · 2020-05-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started my PC career in DOS with Turbo Pascal then C++”
neutral · personal · Clubber · 2017-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I has lucky to be able to bring Turbo Pascal best practices into C++”
neutral · personal · pjmlp · 2016-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it runs on the same logic since the 80s (written in (Turbo) Pascal, directly imported into Delphi as unit in the 90s and on)”
neutral · production · tluyben2 · 2016-05-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I remember being 15 and hacking away (It was Turbo Pascal for me).”
neutral · personal · BSousa · 2013-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?