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At the time, Borland and Watcom C++ just blew Turbo Pascal out of the water. There was no competition, feature and performance-wise. Also OO, which became another things..



um. Turbo Pascal was owned by Borland at that time. They did buy the company that invented it for sure.

TP executables were fast. Compared favorably to C++. The compile-time was also very fast.


I think parent meant "Borland c++ blew away Borland turbo pascal". I can confirm this, as in highschool I (painfully) ported my science fair project from tp to Borland c++ specifically for this reason and saw a ~2x speedup.


can confirm.




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