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.
