Section 04 of 05
People
The named individuals behind the compilers, the tools and the libraries — from Hejlsberg writing Turbo Pascal to Kladov shipping KOL with a thirty-kilobyte target in mind.
A reference on Object Pascal, the Delphi line and the libraries built on it.
Section 04 of 05
The named individuals behind the compilers, the tools and the libraries — from Hejlsberg writing Turbo Pascal to Kladov shipping KOL with a thirty-kilobyte target in mind.
Other sections: Pascal · Delphi · After Borland · Versions
Anders Hejlsberg Wrote the Compiler and Then Wrote Two MoreThe same compiler-design instincts are legible in Turbo Pascal, in Delphi, and in the two languages that followed.People
Philippe Kahn and the Company That Priced Out the MarketBorland's pricing did as much to spread Pascal as the compiler's speed did.People
Vladimir Kladov and the Thirty-Kilobyte ArgumentKladov published his objection as code: a flatter object model, and a binary a fraction of the size.PeopleNiklaus Wirth Designed the Language at ETH and Watched It LeaveNiklaus Wirth at ETH Zürich, the institution where the language was specified in 1970.People
Florian Klämpfl Started Writing a Compiler in 1993A compiler begun in 1993 that now targets more platforms than the product it was written alongside.People