about turbo pascal

Pascal is a procedural programming language, designed in 1968 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth and named in honor of French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal. Pascal runs on multiple platforms, such as Windows, Mac OS, and various versions of UNIX / Linux.

The Turbo Pascal development system consists of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) compilers of the Pascal programming language. Borland Pascal is commonly used for advanced software packages (with more libraries and standard source code libraries) while the cheaper and most widely used version is named as Turbo Pascal. Borland Pascal's name is also used as Borland's Pascal specific dialect.

Borland has developed three older versions of Turbo Pascal for free due to its long history specific to versions 1.0, 3.02, and 5.5 running on the MS-DOS operating system. The latest version ever developed is version 7. Borland Pascal 7 consists of an IDE, and compilers for MS-DOS, DOS extensions, and Windows 3.x programs. Turbo Pascal 7 on the other hand can only create standard MS-DOS programs. The software is also equipped with graphics libraries that abstract the programming in using some external graphics drivers, but the performance of this library is not satisfactory.

In 1995 Borland halted the development of Turbo Pascal and replaced it with Delphi based Object Pascal (Pascal language) which has been equipped with object-oriented programming features. The software brings many new concepts to Turbo Pascal users such as RAD-based programming concepts (short for rapid application development). However, the 32-bit version of Delphi still supports quite a few aspects of Turbo Pascal.

Turbo Pascal is still used as a material that is studied as a subject or course in several schools, and universities in Germany and the United States. In Beligia, Romania, Serbia, Moldova and Bulgaria Pascal are used even in junior high school. But in southern Africa, Pascal is no longer used, but uses Delphi and Java.

Some teachers prefer Turbo Pascal7, or Turbo Pascal 5.5 because it is simpler than current modern IDEs (such as Visual Studio or Borland JBuilder), thereby focusing more on the language side, rather than on how to operates the IDE. In addition, the software is available for free and can be downloaded from the resminy site.
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