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

FORTRAN is still available.  Several versions in fact:

http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/zine/98/fall/text/3.compilers.html 


Perry 


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 12:10 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: ...end of line for Borland...

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


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[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...

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