The interesting history of Borland

[stam]

Some of us may find this interesting, and possibly see some parallels in other RAD environments:

https://youtu.be/xtKcagvogSA?si=uhXPy4ym4NQAa2Bm

[tetsuo29]

I'd give this post a "thumbs up" if that was possible on these forums. That being said, I watched the video and found it interesting but, I don't have a lot to say about it other than, I used to kind of despise Borland Delphi and those that loved it because it was a Windows only development tool. Now, the spirit of it lives on in Lazarus which is completely cross platform- I've been tempted to give it a try except for the fact that Pascal is the language and I don't really see the point in re-learning Pascal.

[richmond62]

Indeed: learning PASCAL in 1983 was tough going, and I have completely forgotten it, the last time I used it was some 17 years ago because my son had to learn the basics of it in backward Bulgaria: and I had to teach him as the cretinous 'teacher' said she didn't understand the language and the pupils should just copy the examples (complete with typos) from the text book.

Also, the computers running Windows Millenium were cacked.

We used FreeDOS with the GEM GUI on a Pentium 2, which worked very well as it had PASCAL and TURBO already installed.

[stam]

The point wasn’t the Pascal. For me it was how an extremely successful platform fell from grace and why… I see many parallels in many current platforms that are slowly going the way of the dodo… or at the very least the way of Lazarus… the actual language used doesn’t enter in to it.

[richmond62]

I did get your message . . .

But, as Borland to Lazarus, so LC to OpenXtalk.