TurboPascal was launched by Borland in November 1983. This month, TurboPascal officially celebrates its 40th anniversary. TurboPascal is a landmark product in the industry, the beginning of Borland Company, and the first popular integrated development environment (IDE). It was a great product at the time and its success was incredible.
TurboPascal is a very representative software development product of Borland Company. From a language perspective, TurboPascal is an extension of the Pascal language. It extends the functionality of standard Pascal. In terms of syntax, TurboPascal absorbs the features of other languages such as C, simplifying the syntax of standard Pascal; in terms of functionality, TurboPascal provides useful function libraries including screen control, graphics processing, system calls, etc. (called units in TurboPascal).
TurboPascal has versions that work on different operating systems such as CP/M, MS-DOS, and Windows.
Embarcadero is a company that continues to develop subsequent versions of TurboPascal, and they have just released version 36 of the compiler. In fact, when you read "Embarcadero Delphi for Win32 Compiler Version 36.0" (the version of the command line compiler in Delphi 12 Athens), the compiler version number 36 can still be traced back to the first Turbo Pascal. Not only that, but they decided to dedicate a product Easter egg to this great anniversary.
Happy 40th birthday to TurboPascal!