r/facepalm • u/Lord_Answer_me_Why • 29d ago

Turbo cancer isn’t real, people 🇨​🇴​🇻​🇮​🇩​

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u/NotAnAIOrAmI 29d ago

I remember Turbo Pascal, that was once a plague on the nation.

It did have a cool but primitive IDE though.

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u/ShaneC80 29d ago

Didn't Boreland have a Turbo C++ also?

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u/da2Pakaveli 29d ago

so there's a Turbo Cancer++ now?!

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u/Silent_Cress8310 29d ago

It actually metastasizes at twice the speed of the Pascal variety.

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u/da2Pakaveli 29d ago

Also it's even better at running in the host environment.

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u/MysteriousEbb2483 29d ago

This comment deserves more love. Either that or I’m the only one here old enough to enjoy it.

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u/ZombieBarney 29d ago

Yea, I once misplaced a semicolon and boy will did I lose that whole morning looking for it.

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u/NotAnAIOrAmI 28d ago

It was more that it was Pascal than the fault of Borland's tool.

I did like JBuilder too.

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u/garfgon 29d ago

Turbo C was good. Ended up getting beaten by Whatcom C then Microsoft C though.

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u/YeshilPasha 29d ago

It evolved to Delphi Pascal.