You're kind of missing the point. Turbo Pascal has been dead for a lot longer. Or is it?

The point is that TypeScript and C# are extremely similar for a good reason, not a coincidence, and that Anders Hejlsberg knows what the fuck he's doing and talking about, and has been implementing amazing groundbreaking well designed languages and IDEs for a very long time. Turbo Pascal was so great it flummoxed Bill Gates, so Microsoft sent a limo to recruit and hire Anders Hejlsberg from Borland, then he made Visual J++, Windows Foundation Classes, C#, and TypeScript.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal

>Scott MacGregor of Microsoft said that Bill Gates "couldn't understand why our stuff was so slow" compared to Turbo Pascal. "He would bring in poor Greg Whitten [programming director of Microsoft languages] and yell at him for half an hour" because their company was unable to defeat Kahn's small startup, MacGregor recalled.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8664370

>"According to the suit, Microsoft also offered Mr. Hejlsberg a $1.5 million signing bonus, a base salary of $150,000 to $200,000 and options for 75,000 shares of Microsoft stock. After Borland's counteroffer last October, Microsoft offered another $1.5 million bonus, the complaint says."

The FORTH-83 standard changed FIG-FORTH's official value of TRUE from 1 to -1 so all its bits were set. That was a rough transition like Python 2=>3, but worth it. It also defined /MOD integer division to be floored (rounded towards -infinity instead of zero like FIG-FORTH), which was also a tough change but the right one, especially for graphics.

https://python-history.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-pythons-inte...

https://forth-standard.org/standard/diff?utm_source=chatgpt....

https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Converting+FIG-Fort...

>4. For various reasons the definition of all divide functions general effect is that quotients are floored instead of rounded toward zero. This should cause no problems for most pre-existing application software. The new divide functions are marginally slower than the old (a few machine cycles under most circumstances). The side-effects of the redefinition for floored divide can be counter-intuitive under some circumstances. For example, in FIG-Forth the operation

      -40 360 MOD

>would return the obvious answer (-40) on the stack, while 83- Standard Forth will return the answer 320!

>5. The true flag returned by all logical operations has been changed from the value 1 (in FIG-Forth) to the value -1 (in Forth-83, all bits set). If your code used the 0 or 1 returned by a comparison in an arithmetic operation, you will need to interpolate the operator ABS after the logical operator. This is a particularly difficult problem to look for in your source code. However, we feel that this mutation in the 83-Standard was beneficial as it allows the returned true/false value to be used as a mask for AND.