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From: shaunc@gold.gvg.tek.com (Shaun Case)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Borland
Message-ID: <2101@gold.gvg.tek.com>
Date: 27 Mar 91 23:14:56 GMT
References: <27645@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA
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In article <27645@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
>Is it just me or is Borland royally shafting C developers?  I mean, we have
>TP for Windows (which INCLUDES Windows classes!), we have TP 6.0 with
>ObjectVision, and we have ObjectVision....all include GUI classes.  And now
>we have BC++, which is highly popular, with NO GUI classes built in.  I
>feel like we're getting ripped.

It seems that Borland's Pascal development is always ahead of its C development.
Turbo Pascal was OOP long before Turbo C was.  Remember, Turbo Pascal is what
they started with, and I suppose their most experienced programmers are the TP
compiler writers.  If you wait a few months, I'll bet you will see ObjectVision
for BC++, once they let all those unsuspecting TP users iron out the bugs!  :-)

This is a hypothesis esoupsed by a friend; neither he nor I really have any clue
what the real story is, but it seems plausible.



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