Memories of Turbo Pascal
Working with Turbo Pascal back in the early 80's was so much fun that a robust application for DOS could be generated and used by various folks. The compiler was fast and the language was simple to learn. The original package was a solid manual as well as the famous diskettes. Once installed the world was open to generate a single executable that could be used on any DOS machine. At that time I was developing a package for OSHA using DBASE III which was another great product, simple to use and affordable database manager. I needed to get a dynamic editor inserted so that the DBASE application could shell out to execute it and allow the end user to write documents which were stored in the DBASE database. It…