m. Th. wrote:

> Perhaps you already know, the Borland is no more, while
> Embarcadero's Delphi is going strong. Oh, well... A take
> from restless DavidI:

> http://blogs.embarcadero.com/davidi/2009/05/06/39621

Thanks for that.

I must say that I find Zeichick's comment:
"Borland is gone, and good riddance. Ted Bahr is right: Few
should mourn its passing."
unfair and showing a remarkable lack of memory.

Certainly these last - hmmm... it's getting embarrasing to
count them - years have been ones for which it has been very
difficult to hold any affection for Borland, but that is not
the same has not having anything to mourn.

(Assuming this buy-out goes through) I think it is the time to
mourn the final passing, after a long lingering illness, of a
company that made a huge difference to many of us. The Turbo
products (the original ones, not the recent new-Coke versions),
OWL and other early forays into OO, and of course their
culmination in Delphi and C++Builder.

The final passing is a time to remember the positive things,
not to re-open old wounds.

--
Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing