Turbo Pascal It had an awesome IDE, debugger, and help.

xvilka · on May 14, 2016

There is an awesome FreePascal [1]. Along with TurboPascal-like console IDE called FPIDE, it has Delphi-like GUI IDE - Lazarus. And it very actively developed, cross-platform and supports modern technologies.

[1] http://www.freepascal.org/

[2] http://www.lazarus-ide.org/

danieldk · on May 14, 2016

I know about FreePascal, I even used it quite a lot in the early 2000s. Unfortunately, the Pascal ship has sailed for me ;).

I could've also mentioned Turbo C(++), which was almost equally nice.

fernly · on May 14, 2016

Coincidentally Anders Hejlsberg, who wrote TP, is interviewed here[1], HN comments [2].

[1] https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/Anders-Hejlsberg...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11685317