Borland to be Acquired by Micro Focus

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I don't know what this means for Borland as I haven't used any of their products for years, but during the 90's they built some of the best development tools available. Before the age of .NET, Borland Delphi was leaps and bounds better than Visual Basic for rapid development of Windows applications. And Turbo Pascal, while certainly not the most beautiful language in the world, was much better than Visual Basic, in my opinion.

I miss my yellow text on a blue background in the Turbo C++ IDE. The very first programming environment I jumped in. My Vim colorscheme is still mapped to 'borland'. Good times.

... gotta be careful here else I'll still be typing tomorrow :)

I started with Delphi 1 writing 16 bit apps for Windows 3.11. Ah, those were the days. My love affair with Delphi continued for almost the next 10 years.

Sob :(

[Edit: I'd like to see a special place in Hell reserved for the managers of Borland, right next to the managers from Commodore]

I have fond memories of learning to program in a Borland C++ IDE, but right now I can only think of one thing related to this news:

Please, please let StarTeam die so that my work might switch to something else. It will probably take a few years, but anything at all would be better. Those of you who have never used StarTeam don't know how good you have it.

When I was using Turbo C++ and then later using and admiring Delphi 1,2 & 3 I never dreamed that the great Borland would be taken over by the company producing the humble PC COBOL compiler I was using at work.

So long and thanks for Tasm!

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