Anders Hejlsberg

And so I got interested in trying to do that.

and then wrote a little compiler that fit into a 12k ROM that would compile a subset of Pascal and you could then yank out the Microsoft ROM basic and stick in our ROM instead and then when you booted your machine you were in this little environment where you could type in Pascal programs and run them and

And that was sort of the early precursor of Turbo Pascal, if you will.

Well, there's a little more to that story.

In that company that we had back in Denmark, I ended up writing eventually a full implementation of Pascal for 8-bit CPM 80.

And then we ended up

doing a joint venture with Borland, which was also a Danish company.

It was originally founded in Denmark.

And we made a royalty contract where they would sell our compiler on a royalty.

And that's how I got involved in Borland.

And we shipped that first product in 83.

the first version of Turbo Pascal.

And then that took off more than any of us had expected.

And eventually that ended up being the thing that I did full time.

Back then, Turbo was like, this was like when Audi had their Quattros and their Turbos and whatever, you know, Turbo just meant fast, right?

And this thing was fast.

And super interactive, right?

And so Turbo Pascal, it was.

Yes, yes.

That was always the idea.