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Turbo Pascal was just genius, really!

Esp. the lightspeed compile times, and that you could create a redist exe-file to copy your "highly sophisticated games" to your friends and show them, how cool it is :-))

Good ol times!

That was true even into the Delphi days. Around 2007 I was able to compile about 400,000 lines of code in 2-3 seconds on my desktop.