Turbo Pascal was a Pascal compiler and development environment from the American company Borland, introduced in 1983 and written largely by Anders Hejlsberg. It combined an editor, a compiler and a debugger in a single small program for personal computers, and the compiler was very fast. At a price of under fifty dollars it was far cheaper than competing products, so it became popular with students and professionals. Philippe Kahn led Borland and marketed it aggressively. Hejlsberg later designed Delphi, C# and TypeScript at Borland and Microsoft. Turbo Pascal helped make Pascal a widely taught language in the 1980s.
Before and after
- 14 September 1983Birth of Amy Winehouse
- 27 September 1983Creation of GNU
- October 1983Release of Microsoft Word
- from 25 October 1983 to 15 December 19831983 Invasion of Grenada
- 20 November 1983Creation of Turbo Pascal
- 17 December 1983Harrods bombing
- 1984Discovery of hassium
- 1984Rise of visual kei
- 1984Founding of Lenovo
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