Turbo Pascal

programming language

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Original author: Anders Hejlsberg (at Borland)
Developer: Borland
Initial release: 20 November 1983 ; 42 years ago ( 1983-11-20 )
Operating system: CP/M , CP/M-86 , MS-DOS , Windows 3.x , Classic Mac OS
Platform: Z80 , x86 , 68000 , PC-98
Available in: English
Type: Integrated development environment

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inception: 1983-11-20
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Turbo Pascal is a software development system that includes a compiler and an integrated development environment (IDE) for the programming language Pascal running on the operating systems CP/M, CP/M-86, and MS-DOS. It was originally developed by Anders Hejlsberg at Borland, and was notable for its very fast compiling. Turbo Pascal, and the later but similar Turbo C, made Borland a leader in PC-based development tools.

For versions 6 and 7 (the last two versions), both a lower-priced Turbo Pascal and more expensive Borland Pascal were produced; Borland Pascal was oriented more toward professional software development, with more libraries and standard library source code. The name Borland Pascal is also used more generically for Borland's dialect of the language Pascal, significantly different from Standard Pascal.