Why I Use (Object) Pascal

Re:Why I Use (Object) Pascal by mojuba on Thursday January 17, 2008 @12:05PM (#99833)

Besides, credits must be given to Anders Hejlsberg who brought Wirth's awkward and unusable brainchild to market by doing 2 things: by extending the language in the most consistent and beautiful way and by creating probably the fastest optimizing native-code compiler ever created. The compiler itself was a masterpiece of SE.

Should I say how much I regret Hejlsberg left Borland to join Microsoft? That put an end to Delphi/Object Pascal, although the language and the IDE had the full potential to take C#'s market today.

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Re:Why I Use (Object) Pascal by tx on Thursday January 17, 2008 @12:12PM (#99839)

Smartest thing he ever did.

Borland never had R&D or marketing muscle to keep up with everyone else (Microsoft). Their C and C++ compilers were always buggy (sometimes adding an empty line would stop a compiler from crashing), their profilers never worked, their C++ IDE used modal dialogs to display progress of compilation... Delphi was the only reasonably well-built piece of software they did, and it was still beaten by VB commercially.

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Re:Why I Use (Object) Pascal by bayareaguy on Thursday January 17, 2008 @01:37PM (#99884)

If http://delphi.about.com/od/delphifornet/a/conspiracydnet_2.h... is to be believed, he also got a cool $3 million signing bonus too.

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