Borland Turbo Pascal 2.0

Borland Turbo Pascal 2.0 continued the remarkably successful formula established by the original Turbo Pascal, providing DOS programmers with a fast compiler and integrated programming environment. Pascal had already earned a reputation as a language suitable for teaching structured programming, but Borland made it much more practical for everyday development. The software was compact, quick, and refreshingly direct. You could sit down, write a program, compile it, discover that you had forgotten a semicolon, fix it, and try again before modern computers would have finished deciding which notification to display. Turbo Pascal importance goes beyond its feature list: it helped create a generation of programmers who learned to regard the PC not merely as a machine for running software but as something they could program themselves. Version 2.0 is therefore an interesting piece of the story behind the personal-computer programming boom.