Borland Turbo C

Turbo C is an integrated development environment for the programming language Borland C.

The beginnings

After Borland with Turbo Pascal had great success and became the language of the quasi standard for the PC application programming, the company brought out three more development systems that followed the concept of Turbo Pascal: Turbo Basic, Turbo Prolog and Turbo C. 1987

Turbo C had the same properties as Turbo Pascal: an integrated development environment (IDE ), a fast compiler, a good editor and the whole thing for a great price. Nevertheless, Turbo C was not as successful as the Pascal sister product. Firstly, C was not a school language like Pascal, but rather the language for professional programming and system development. For these tasks, the language is always used, which also includes the operating system was written, in the case of DOS, Windows, and Linux therefore C. Therefore Turbo C entered on one side with the professionals an already well-staffed with development tools box (Microsoft C, Lattice C, Watcom C, etc. ), on the other hand, Turbo C was not so interesting from the alignment ago for the amateurs and beginners. That Turbo C nevertheless conquered his community, was mainly due to the speed of the compiled code, the fact that so in 1987 already extensive projects could be realized, and on compared to the competing compilers very low price.

Development

Despite the comparatively lower sales Borland compiler maintains his line for C and C continues to this day. versions:

From the beginning, the product split (as well as later in Pascal ) in two lines, one for beginners and one for the professional. At first were called "Turbo " and " Turbo Professional", later just yet "Turbo" and " Borland ". They developed C to 1996 in these two lines further up to version Turbo C 3.0 and Borland C 5.0. As with Turbo Pascal, there is also a Turbo C for Windows, which reached version 4.5.

From Turbo C for the Atari ST, there were only 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0. The program was not maintained by Borland, but the sources were sold and the product was then further developed for some time under the name PureC.

As of 1996, the Delphi principle is also adapted in the C toolkit. The Delphi based on C called C Builder.

Left

  • Turbo C 2:01 for free download
  • Turbo C 1:01 for download for registered users of other products
  • Computer Museum Munich with a large collection of software, including Turbo C 1.0 ff

Swell

  • Grand Prix. Turbo C - Even faster? c't 8/87 pp. 46ff. , Heise Verlag
  • Programming tool
  • Historic software
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