Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu May 7 11:10:13 CDT 2009
That is the way of the computer world. I know more dead languages than I know live ones. My first major program was a survey app written in Intergraph script and FORTRAN (on a PDP-11 and 351VAX no less which were then translated to the desktop), then a Rental app written in 6502/6510 assembler (a harmless drudge), an Election application in SuperBase, then Turbo-Pascal, followed by a series of apps in SmartWare/Informix and then in Clarion (loved Clarion)... I wrote a major POS/Accounting package for Dairies and they sold very well... The point I am trying to make is that computer languages come and go. The best one today is history tomorrow. It is sad to see them go after spending so much time becoming proficient and good friends and then they are gone. Even ACCESS and ASP are dwindling and they are being slowly replaced by .NET/Java. In hindsight wished I stuck with 'C'. ;-) Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov Shamil Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 12:03 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