Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!bu-cs!polygen!bill From: bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Borland International Message-ID: <573@fred.UUCP> Date: 25 Oct 89 14:11:55 GMT References: <4280@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Reply-To: bill@fred.UUCP (Bill Poitras) Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA Lines: 18 In article <4280@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> unkydave@shumv1.ncsu.edu (David Bank) writes: >In article hp0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hokkun Pang) writes: > Borland was founded around 1983 (or maybe it was 1982) by Phillipe >Kahn (I think that's how you spell him name) who was, at the time, an >illigal immigrant from France. [stuff deleted] From what I have heard, Phillipe Kahn wrote Turbo Pascal partially because he couldn't get a job because he was an illegal immigrant. Kind of like: 'Gee, I can't get a normal job, so why don't I write a cheap, revolutionary PC Pascal compiler and build a multi-million dollar company.' Yeah...that's the ticket! +-----------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Bill Poitras | Polygen Corporation | {princeton mit-eddie | | (bill) | Waltham, MA USA | buita sunne}!polygen!bill | +-----------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+