Precisely. I started high school in 1992 and the only two IBM-PC compatibles in the computer class (the rest being CP/M machines) were an XT-8086 and an AT-80286. The XT had a very fast Turbo Pascal compiler, I don't recall the exact version but could have been 3.0. AT machine had 5.0 or something and was significantly slower although not to render it unusable. That's until someone wiped out 3.0 from the XT machine and replaced it with the same 5.0. Compile time of a simple "hello world" program raised from under 1 second to at least a minute. Rendered unusable and worst part was that 3.0 was completely gone, no floppies to re-install it. They had it solely on the hard drive (probably 20Mb or so) but now was gone.
The 1-min compile time for TP5 doesn't sound right to me. I used Turbo Pascal versions from 3 to 7 back in the day, and all of them were quite fast (one-pass compiler). Turbo C++ was another matter though. The same example programs compiled drastically slower (seconds vs minutes).
That is one thing I really miss. TP was defacto language to teach in exUSSR.
In many cases,TP or later Delphi followed as IDE for real apps.
Pascal had its issues, but compilation speed was insane. When most people switched to java or c#, we lost this. Authors of both could have not used language so similar to C, but it happened.
I dunno, maybe I need to adjust and think before compiling, or switch to Go.
