looking at the perfection of Turbo pascal always made me feel stupid. At least it's not just me, wikipedia says:

"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.[21] " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal