Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!emerald!pcg From: pcg@emerald.cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Borland International Message-ID: Date: 31 Oct 89 19:08:42 GMT References: <213400064@s.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 31 In-reply-to: pathak@s.cs.uiuc.edu's message of 27 Oct 89 16:35:20 GMT In article <213400064@s.cs.uiuc.edu> pathak@s.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > Turbo Pascal is based on a danish pascal compiler, which I think was (is?) > called Poly Pascal. Turbo Prolog is also a danish product. > I don't know about the other products, Borland probably bought them and > changed the label. > As for Philip Kahn, I very much doubt that he exists. > > Bjorn > -- > Bjorn Heimir Bjornsson Internet: bjornb@rhi.hi.is > University of Iceland UUCP: {mcvax,enea}!hafro!rhi!bjornb Philip Kahn is a real person, Frank Borland and mule are not. Heeren Pathak pathak@cs.uiuc.edu In an interview, Philippe Kahn, who is French, said that he called the company Borland because it looked like a good American sounding name; he did not want to draw attention to himself, because he was an illegal immigrant. As to the company products, the company is very much in the sotware *publishing* business, he says, even more than in the *development* business. That makes good business sense. Apparently Kahn did some hands on work with Turbo Pascal in the early days, but it is not the (main or only) author. -- Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi | ARPA: pcg%cs.aber.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk