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Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)

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Being version 3, there were lesser releases prior to it and flashier ones after, but 3 was a solid representation of the Turbo Pascal experience: a full Pascal compiler, including extensions that it made it practical for commercial use, tightly integrated with an editor. And the whole thing was lightning fast, orders of magnitude faster at building projects than Microsoft's compilers. The entire Turbo Pascal 3.02 executable--the compiler and IDE--was 39,731 bytes.

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