Asim Khan wrote: > http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,33303,00.html
I used to be a _HUGE_ Borland fan. Used Turbo C and Turbo C++ back in the day and then got their Windows compilers. However, I recently ran into a MAJOR problem with their Builder series and was forced to switch compilers (the Builder 5 Enterprise compiler absolutely refused to build some 100% ANSI C++ code I wrote with no alternate way of writing it and it wasn't going to work under any newer Builder version, so I bit the bullet and switched). Borland was famous back in the day for writing a C compiler that was solid, standards-compliant, created _very_ small executables, and was _blazing_ fast. Even back then on those slower machines, you couldn't get your finger off the hotkey that compiled the code fast enough before it was done compiling. With my Builder 5 experience, it was excruciatingly and painfully _slow_ waiting for it to finish even on my Dual PIII 500 PC - and is still sluggish on my hyperthreaded 3GHz Intel PC. So, platitudes like "Borland is still committed to Delphi" or "Borland is still committed to Builder" these days are meaningless to me if I can't compile code that should compile according to the Standards specifications for C++ (for the latter) or if I can't get a reasonable level of support for Delphi Enterprise and especially if it takes forever (longer than 2 seconds) to build on modern CPUs. I have a feeling that article was released in reply to "Spybot Search&Destroy"'s recent comments on their main website: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/news/page-6.html http://www.safer-networking.org/en/news/page-3.html (Apparently the authors are so frustrated with Borland they are looking to switch to Lazarus...i.e. Open source Delphi) Back when Borland merged with Inprise (eons ago), I got the distinct feeling that something internally was going bad with the company. The company hasn't been the same since. It isn't so much that Borland doesn't update their software - it has to do more with the _quality_ of the updates. The changes rarely address the serious issues that every serious user is _constantly_ hammering on about (bugs still exist in the latest Delphi that existed back in version 3). When they are addressed, they are treated as "features" and a new version than a patch. Some of you are probably wondering why I am on this list. I'm not anti-Borland, I'm just not as big a fan as I used to be because I saw my favorite company slowly lose its ability to make a solid piece of software. -- Thomas Hruska ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/i7folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
