Re:Why did Borland fail?
by laumars on Monday June 15, 2015 @05:20AM
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> Actually at the time I am talking about, .NET has not been invented yet (wikipedia says 2012)
I assume you mean 2002? FYI .NET was available to some developers before 2002, that was just the first non-beta release :)
> I am fully aware VB and VB.NET are two different languages...I cited VB because it was supposed to be the "easiest" language of the period
I mistook your post to reference Visual Basic because I mentioned it in my post where I discussed VB.NET. I say this because opening your post with "actually" suggested you meant your reply as a correction to my comment. So it wasn't clear to me that your post was intended purely as an interesting yet tangential anecdote.
I assume you mean 2002? FYI .NET was available to some developers before 2002, that was just the first non-beta release :)
> I am fully aware VB and VB.NET are two different languages...I cited VB because it was supposed to be the "easiest" language of the period
I mistook your post to reference Visual Basic because I mentioned it in my post where I discussed VB.NET. I say this because opening your post with "actually" suggested you meant your reply as a correction to my comment. So it wasn't clear to me that your post was intended purely as an interesting yet tangential anecdote.