22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks

Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by johnhattan on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @09:54AM (#13652375)

I'd also think "It's $1400 cheaper than Delphi" would be a good selling point.

I started using Turbo Pascal in college when it was $49. Given that Embarcadero Delphi is competing with a lot of stuff that is free and high-quality, I doubt it's got anywhere to go but down from here.

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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by pjmlp on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @10:48AM (#13652784)

I payed around 100 € (direct conversion) for Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5, back in the day.

One reason Borland lost us was when they decided to go after the enterprise market, with comparable prices.

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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by bartread on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @11:09AM (#13652986)

Borland screwed up across the board. There's an entertaining, if somewhat depressing, discussion of their woes in Merrill Chapman's "In Search of Stupidity".

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