borland

So here you have IBM and Borland both leveraging the same open source framework.

Regarding Pascal, Borland dialects allowed for regions, but of course they are scope based.

A good example is Borland taking 6 months to rewrite Quattro in object-oriented code.

OWL lagged behind because Borland did not have access to in-development versions of Windows.

It is trivial to make a trivial spreadsheet but the last real competitor to Excel was Borland Quattro Pro in the early 1990's.

I didn't know what I was doing and just typed in the code into Borland C++ 4.5.

So I read deeper and it seems his role at TogetherSoft (acquired by Borland turing his tenure) involved mentoring coworkers.

Java had no IDE back in 95/96, but the compiler was free and it also ran on Linux, which Borland was late to adopt.

Most of the class used Borland Turbo Pascal for their projects (it was up to version 5 by that point, I think).

Should I say how much I regret Hejlsberg left Borland to join Microsoft?

It's like being a software engineer and getting a new manager that previously worked at Goldman Sachs, wears expensive suits to the office, asks you for help using Microsoft Word, but then tells you to switch from IntelliJ to Borland JBuilder because he owns some shares in Borland.

I'd also try to list all of the things that I've learned and how far I came from when I first started programming - I learned from the gentle introduction in C for Dummies, quickly got in over my head, and had a friend help me with pointing out all the off-by-one errors in my new fancy lightbar menu code bit that I wrote for Borland C/DOS, and my fancy console input routines.

For example: On his FounderDating profile he listed himself as having been a "mentor" to TogetherSoft / Borland.

Borland applications such as Quattro Pro also suffered because Borland did not have access to in-development features of Windows such as OLE 2.0, and because of Microsoft bundling productivity applications into an Office "suite".

Borland "look and feel" results were about the interface, not implementation.

Apple was dying, Google and Facebook didn't exist, Netscape had its "air supply" cut off and Borland, Delphi, and IBM looked like they were headed for the trash can of history.

The current producer of Borland's Delphi, Embarcadero, sell the product for a minimum of $1000 plus a subscription is now required to get ANY bug fixes at all!

JetBrains was started as a small startup and then absorbed people from St Petersburg office of Borland.

Borland decision was, in fact, about an interface that was keystroke-for-keystroke identical between the two applications.