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Go is boring, and that’s fantastic
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.
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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.
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can confirm.
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TP executables were fast. Compared favorably to C++. The compile-time was also very fast.