Turbo Pascal

since unknown year (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1983)

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empty

ndw

cdeblois

undoingemptyvoid

gnat

jtauber

jeffself

thumper

morgs

fdrake

Cema

eMBee

hexdump42

shiny

jamesotron

jdunck

zellyn

Uche

zephyrfalcon

supakoo

RCARDENES

jorjun

gsiegman

reinout

ashugg

frankwiles

enki

jefftriplett

tartley

otherchirps

mdridley

shywolf9982

adders

soryu2

iamteem

shawnr

madewulf

tswicegood

z3d

Swizec

andrew

Sitwon

vrejohanian

beaugunderson

smalltobi

Vector

sfaruque

brutasse

bkopanja

qwertymz

empty - 30 years

ndw - 6 years

cdeblois - 7 years

undoingemptyvoid - 2 years

gnat - 4 years

jtauber - 4 years

jeffself - 8 years

thumper - 4 years

morgs - 4 years

fdrake - 7 years

Cema - 4 years

eMBee - 2 years

hexdump42 - 3 years

shiny - 24 years

jamesotron - 4 years

jdunck - 3 years

zellyn - 4 years

Uche - 3 years

zephyrfalcon - 5 years

supakoo - 2 years

RCARDENES - 9 years

jorjun - 2 years

gsiegman - 3 years

reinout - 6 years

ashugg - 4 years

frankwiles - 2 years

enki - 3 years

jefftriplett - 3 years

tartley - 1 years

otherchirps - 2 years

mdridley - 5 years

shywolf9982 - 3 years

adders - 3 years

soryu2 - 18 years

iamteem - 5 years

shawnr - 2 years

madewulf - 4 years

tswicegood - 1 years

z3d - 1 years

Swizec - 4 years

andrew - 6 years

Sitwon - 3 years

vrejohanian - 5 years

beaugunderson - 2 years

smalltobi - 2 years

Vector - 2 years

sfaruque - 4 years

brutasse - 1 years

bkopanja - 9 years

qwertymz - 4 years

gg - 1 years

empty

1983–

Still have the original Turbo Pascal 3.0 book on my bookshelf.

cdeblois

1984–1990

Purely educational.

ndw

1984–1989

undoingemptyvoid

1985–1986

Used in college for compiler class and more, but not until I had suffered some ancient Honeywell based teletype system to learn Pascal. Made my life 10 times easier and I was way more productive.

gnat

1985–1988

Stopped using Turbo Pascal once I learned C, but it was the first structured programming language (i.e., one with curly braces) that I ever used, and the first IDE.

jtauber

1987–1990

Was the main language programmed with while I was in high school (and actually briefly got to use it *at* high school). Also the first language I did OO with (version 5.5 had OO extensions).

thumper

1987–1990

I got Turbo pascal 5.5 for my 15th birthday. Didn't get objects at all.

jeffself

1987–1994

Took a C class after graduation. Up to that point, my programming exposure was Basic and COBOL. Ran screaming from the C class. The next year I signed up for Intro to CS and they taught Pascal. Fell in absolute love with it. Like James Tauber said, it was definitely the Python of its time.

Cema

1988–1991

School, internship.

eMBee

1988–1989

there was a computer in our school library that had it, so i played around with it

morgs

1988–1991

High school...

fdrake

1988–1994

Oooh, this was so nice after BASIC and MS ASM.

jamesotron

1989–1992

My first computer, an XT clone came with a copy of Turbo Pascal 4. My father was adamant I learn a 'proper language'. Turbo Pascal is your ugly cousin who inappropriately rubs her knees against you at dinner.

shiny

1989–

hexdump42

1989–1991

zellyn

1990–1993

Aah, high school programming… TSR programs to stay dormant, then bounce characters around the screen…

jdunck

1990–1992

Took a Computer Math course (super-nerd elective). About 3 weeks into it, I started helping my teacher; lots of other students were struggling.

Uche

1990–1992

gsiegman

1991–1993

supakoo

1991–1992

For a class only; never used it for anything else.

jorjun

1991–1992

Learned OOP for the first time. Productive language and elegant implementation, far better than standard Pascal.

zephyrfalcon

1991–1995

reinout

1991–1996

It all started with the mandatory university course. Soon started using it left and right after that. Object oriented, mostly.

RCARDENES

1991–1999

Got it from a friend while at high-school. My first (successful) experience with a compiled language.

ashugg

1992–1995

My first programming language beyond BASIC. I did some awesome things but hopefully can't remember any of it now. Sadly I can still see my Turbo Pascal 6.0 books on a shelf above me ...

frankwiles

1993–1994

enki

1993–1995

jefftriplett

1994–1996

My third language which I learned while taking an independent study in high school. Thank you Mrs. Jennett for letting me take an independent study even though programming was well over your head.

tartley

1994

otherchirps

1994–1995

shywolf9982

1995–1997

Did a few things with it in the first years of HS, where we had a mini-course on it during math (?) hours.

adders

1995–1997

Used as the language at college to learn programming.

mdridley

1995–1999

soryu2

1995–

My second language after basic. My first steps OOP.

iamteem

1995–1999

The only programming language we used when I was in high school.

shawnr

1995–1996

I only used Turbo Pascal for a few CS courses in college (until I changed my major to Creative Writing, like a sensible person).

madewulf

1996–1999

My first programming language at the university. I still like it.

tswicegood

1996

First compiler I ever had access to. I remember spending hours making an awesome text colorer that would rotate the colors. It was even more cool because I could provide it with any string and it would just work. :-)

z3d

1996

andrew

1997–2002

Second programming language. Used it in high school, never on real world projects.

Swizec

1997–2000

Sitwon

1997–1999

My first formal programming class. Of course I won the programming competition at the end of the class. The prize was a Coca-Cola mouse pad that I still have somewhere.

sfaruque

1998–2001

Learned this in highschool.

vrejohanian

1998–2002

as i said... teenager ! :S

smalltobi

1998–1999

The first language that I learned in junior highschool. Back then we just printed colorful texts on the command prompt. It was fun, but I didn't see the real application of programming languages by that time.

Vector

1998–1999

First programming class in High School.

beaugunderson

1998–1999

brutasse

2002

qwertymz

2002–2005

My first programming language. Oh, how times have changed..

bkopanja

2002–2010