19 Feb
2015
19 Feb
'15
2:35 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 8:40 AM, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
I think people confuse Turbo Pascal with "standard" Pascal. Turbo brought
a LOT to the table that you simply coudln't do
with a standardized Pascal
compiler. Borland never quit tweaking the language - Object Pascal hit
with the 5.5 release of Turbo Pascal and that was improved upon even
further with the 6.0 and 7.0 releases. When Delphi hit the market in 1995,
it really blew people away. Had Borland's management not run the company
into the ground, Delphi would be a lot more popular than it is today.
Fortunately they used their last functioning brain cell to spin their
developer tools off to CodeGear in 2007. Embarcadero purchased them a
while after that and have continued to improve upon the product - both
Delphi and C++ Builder.
ISTR Borland did a lot of 'tweaking' - take a look at Turbo Prolog. It
sounded cool in the marketing literature, but I could never figure out what
it was really good for. When I finally learned C&M Prolog a few years
later, I realized that the Borland product was Prolog in little more than
name and keywords. I also realized that Prolog was in fact very, very cool
and a lot of fun. -- Ian
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington
There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."