basic - continued

[marc]

Joep L. Blom wrote:

> I can tell a lot about the erratic course steered by Borland and the 
> cogs effectively thrown by certain other companies (not only MS) but I 
> think that is too much OT. Maybe worth a new thread to inform youngsters 
> about the interesting history of program development?

I have many a Borland tale too. Great guys. Where are they now?

I once turned up for an interview that was, in reality, done and dusted,
only to be told that the CEO had put in place an employment freeze the
day before. I'd flown across the globe.

I later did a keynote speech at one of their confs while at Sun. I was
a Java dude by then.

Delphi was the nuts back then, imo. Pascal or not, it beat the crap out
of the c++ nonsense.

-- 
Best,
Marc

"Change requires small steps."