alt Hacker NewsI also felt inferior programming in Pascal and believed "real programmers" wrote in C back in the early 90s. I quickly moved on to Turbo C/C++ after only a couple of years writing in Turbo Pascal in my teen years. If there is one thing I have learned in 35 years writing code, it is to ignore tech religion and focus on getting the work done. Some of the biggest feats in software engineering have been done with the fewest resources at their disposal.
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mycall • yesterday at 9:44 PM
Anders sure has a great lineage of languages he developed.
hnlmorg • yesterday at 8:35 PM
Well said. That’s been one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned over my career too.
I loved Turbo C/C++!. I still have copies of the directory tree that I would move from computer to computer. It was a simple little sandbox to test things, or to show newbies code. I have an 486 box that still worked last I checked with a bunch of Turbo Pascal and Turbo C code - Almost all of which I would be embarrassed to see the light. I wrote thousands of lines of code before I should be using functions :). I did amuse myself though.