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| 1 | + |  [[Turbo Pascal]] is a dialect of the [[Pascal]] programming language which was sold by Borland International during the 1980s and 1990s for use with the MS-DOS and later Microsoft Windows [[operating system|operating systems]]. A few versions (1.0 and 1.1) were also released for Apple's System 6 and System 7 (a.k.a. Mac OS in later versions).It provided an *Integrated Development Environment* or [[IDE]], which combined editor, program [[Compiler|compiler]] and execution environment for developing, debugging, and compiling Pascal [[Source code|source code]]. | |
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| 3 | + | It would later provide features such as [[Conditional compilation|conditional compilation]] and the ability to separately compile modules using the [[Unit|unit]] directive, and would also implement some of the features which were first implemented years earlier in [[UCSD Pascal]]. | |
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| 5 | + | Beginning with version 5.5 Turbo Pascal introduced support for [[Glossary|OOP]] by an extended version of the [[Object Pascal]] syntax that had been introduced with Apple's [[Mac Pascal]]. For versions 6.0 and 7.0 of the Turbo Pascal language (and product), a separate Windows version was also released: Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.0 and Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5. | |
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| 7 | + | Turbo Pascal (and the "professional" product version called [[Borland Pascal]]) were phased out in the 1990s in favor of [[Delphi]] which had language and library enhancements and was focused on [[Microsoft Windows]] GUI programming. There was briefly a Delphi-equivalent for use on the [[Linux]] operating system called [[Kylix]]. | |
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| 9 | + | The [[FPC]] Pascal Compiler provides a high level of compatibility with code written for Turbo Pascal and Borland Pascal, and some degree of compatibility with code written for Delphi and Kylix. | |
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| 11 | + | ## Version History | |
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| 13 | + | Product Name | |
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| 17 | + | Borland Pascal 7 | |
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| 19 | + | 27th October 1992 | |
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| 21 | + | Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5 | |
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| 23 | + | 8th June 1992 | |
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| 25 | + | Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.0 | |
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| 27 | + | 13th February 1991 | |
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| 29 | + | Turbo Pascal 6 | |
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| 31 | + | 23rd October 1990 | |
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| 33 | + | Turbo Pascal 5.5 | |
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| 35 | + | 2nd May 1989 | |
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| 37 | + | Turbo Pascal 5 | |
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| 39 | + | 24th August 1988 | |
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| 41 | + | Turbo Pascal 4 | |
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| 43 | + | 20th November 1987 | |
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| 45 | + | Turbo Pascal 3 | |
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| 47 | + | 17th September 1986 | |
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| 49 | + | Turbo Pascal 2 | |
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| 51 | + | 17th April 1984 | |
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| 53 | + | Turbo Pascal 1 | |
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| 55 | + | 20th November 1983 | |
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| 57 | + | --- | |
| 58 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Turbo Pascal", as it stood on 2023-10-15 after a change by FPC user, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* |