"Byte" in 1989 listed Turbo C and Turbo Pascal as among the "Distinction" winners of the Byte Awards. Citing their user interface and continued emphasis on speed, the magazine stated that "for rapid prototyping there's not much better". In the same issue Pournelle again praised version 4.0 and 5.0 of Turbo Pascal. Citing "Anacreon" as "a good example of how complex a program you can write in Pascal", and the many libraries available from Borland and other developers, he wrote, "I am more and more convinced that Turbo Pascal is the programming language of choice for people who are more interested in "what" they want the machine to do than in how to make that happen. Turbo Pascal may be neither as elegant nor as portable as C, but it's sure less obscure. I think it may well be the language for the rest of us".