As a student I learned Turbo Pascal around 1991. Most of the problems with the original language were fixed and Borland provided enough extensions to use the language to program hardware drivers under DOS.

Then on my first job I learned C++, again in its Borland incarnation. The slow compilation speed was a big issue. We were forced to use carefully structured precompiled headers and tried not to touch headers included in the core compilation set. And all that after very fast compilation and linking even on big projects with Turbo Pascal. There was even discussion to switch the project to Pascal to be more productive. But C++ were considered cooler and we stayed with it.

And at my current work almost 30 years later I still have to wait hours for full recompilation to finish. C++ modules that do roughly what Turbo Pascal had with its unit files are supposed to fix that, but we are still few years from using that in production.