On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:50 AM, 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.

We all remember the good things even these days
turboc/pascal from the dos was very easy to use compared to vim or emacs
it was very quick to get it and start coding , i just say about the
learning curve
the same apply to delphi easy to play with and i coded a lot of
applications in it

Their focus lately was ALM , i don't know what that fuzzy term is but
is not compilers or
ide , rad ... or good old tools we know
Ahh and they still ignored firebird forever it's like we are black
sheeps or something ....
Borlad was killed by Microsoft when they took the brains out of it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg
This is the end for Sons of Kahn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Kahn#Borland_.281982-1995.29
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/07/borland_ditches_delphi/

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