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... -----Original Message----- 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----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [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... > > -- > Shamil > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com