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Re:Create React apps using Kotlin by systems on Saturday November 04, 2017 @02:05PM (#15626161)
I wouldnt go as far as comparing them to borland

Remember that the community edition is open source

They are an open company and do offer a lot completly for free

Borland was .. a very traditional closed company

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Re:Create React apps using Kotlin by hackerfromthefu on Sunday November 05, 2017 @09:26AM (#15629522)
>> Borland was .. a very traditional closed company

One of the great things about Borland was they published the source code to their VCL (their main platform library Delphi and C++ builder applications used). So you could read, learn from, troubleshoot and debug with the source code. At a time when Microsoft and most companies didn't.

And the VCL design patterns were/are incredibly elegant, and studying them an excellent and accessible way for an interested programmer to learn some real software architecture skills.

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