[AccessD] OT: ...end of line for Borland...

Dian nd500_lo at charter.net
Wed May 6 23:08:26 CDT 2009


Someone on this list should do a survey of where we all came to Access
from...I read all this and it is interesting to follow the different paths
we each followed... 

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Eric Barro
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 6:30 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: ...end of line for Borland...

I was also hooked on Turbo C by Borland!

I remember scouring the computer stores looking for anything on Turbo C. I
started my programming "career" on an Atari creating macros for a
spreadsheet program before graduating to Lotus Symphony's integrated
spreadsheet and database applications. After that, I tried dBASE III and
Clipper. The school I was working for used filePro so I had to learn that
and on the side I taught myself to program in C using Turbo C. It took a
year before I finally grasped the concept of C programming and came up with
the what I considered a really cool application -- a fancy and advanced menu
driven interface.

When C++ came out I figured that it was too complicated to learn
object-oriented programming and stopped learning C and shifted my focus to
MS Access 1.0 and finally web-based programming.

Today, I'm back full circle, programming this time with Microsoft's C# using
(GASP!) object-oriented/event-driven programming techniques. :)

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Simms
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 6:09 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: ...end of line for Borland...

Ever use Borland's Jbuilder for webdev ?
I once did....or tried to....it was so buggy, it was unusable.
Good riddance Indeed !

> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of 
> Salakhetdinov Shamil
> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 3:03 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: [AccessD] OT: ...end of line for Borland...
>
> Hi All,
>
> FYI: http://www.sdtimes.com/link/33460
>
> "Bottom line: Borland is gone, and good riddance. Ted Bahr is
> right: Few should mourn its passing. The differentiation is now clear: 
> If you want ALM suites, go to Micro Focus. If you want application 
> performance management tools, go to Compuware. And if you want 
> developer tools, go to Embarcadero."
>
> That's a pity - I started to work on PCs (PC XT 10MB HDD!!!) using 
> Borland's Turbo C and Turbo Pascal - that were very good development 
> tools for PCs, probably the best, for that time...
>
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