30 years ago and Borland had a compiled language that was almost as fast as working with an interpreted language. Compile and link in seconds on 8Mhz machines:<p>&quot;At $50 for the Borland product vs. the Microsoft $400 compiler, it was a bit like comparing a VW to a Porsche. But while Turbo Pascal was lighter weight for serious development, it was almost as quick for programming and debugging as Microsoft’s BASIC interpreters.&quot;<p>Found this article where the guy claims that the technology was folded into Delphi and it was probably about 1 million lines per minute on much faster hardware:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prog21.dadgum.com&#x2F;47.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prog21.dadgum.com&#x2F;47.html</a>