A Small Piece of History

[CARPETBURNER]

http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20803[^] http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/images/20803/TP_55_OOP_Guide.pdf[^] Something all younger "so called" programmers should read in my opinion.. Its an excert from the Turbo Pascal 5.5 Manual dated circa 1989 about OO programming..

[Anna Jayne Metcalfe]

Gosh I remember that version - lightning fast (10,000 lines/sec on a 386, IIRC) compilation, and a decent set of libraries. Didn't it eventually become Delphi?

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[Henry Minute]

Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:

Didn't it eventually become Delphi

Oooh yes. Jolly good it was too.

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[Rhuros]

Yep, Remember this as a student also bought a student version of Turbo Pascal for Windows to right a lisp interpreter from my degree project.... God now I really am feeling old today...:)

[BonshatS]

Loved that compiler. That book is in a box a few feet away as I type this.

[Dan Neely]

I started with TP6 in HS, and sort of taught myself OOP from the help file. The only thing I was doing wrong was instead of using abstract base classes I had a single class type with function pointers to implement everything manually. :-O

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[Roger Wright]

No need to click; I still have that manual. :-D

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