Well put!

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Geoff Worboys <
geoff@...> wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
>
>

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