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On Fri, 2 Jan 2026 05:37:02 -0500, c186282 wrote:

>    TP was a TOTAL REVOLUTION ... not only because of the integrated
>    development environment but because of the BLAZING compilation speed.

My first go around with Turbo Pascal was the typical 'hello world' I 
though the compiler was broken when it finished immediately. Zolman's BDS 
C compiler was quite an accomplishment for a 20 year old hacker but fast 
it wasn't.

BDS:  Brain Damaged Software

After Microsoft worked from Lattice C and polished it up a few times it 
was much more sophisticated (and expensive) but that was in the future.