As I heard the story some years ago....cannot vouch for accuracy: Microsoft courted Anders for quite a while, as a brilliant technical lead. Finally they sent a limousine to Borland to take him out to lunch, and gave him an offer "he couldn't refuse":
He could choose what he worked on They would double his salary If he agreed to sign up that lunchtime they would give him $1 million. He went. There's a nice video on Channel 9 of him speaking on his history, and some Borland people turned up to add to it. I think its http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Behind+The+Code/Life-and-Times-of-Anders-Hejlsberg/ Would love to hear from those who have used both C# and Delphi their opinions on whether C# is Delphi done right or become bloated complex and MS-only. I hear lots of nice comments about C#, and observe that many programmers who disappear into that cave are never seen outside alive again... John > Are we talking about Anders Hejlsberg? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg > He's a pretty smart guy. I think he is the chief architect for C# > rather than .net > > > Leigh Wanstead wrote: >> I don't understand why Delphi designer can move to Microsoft to be chief >> of dot net. Can someone explain it? >> _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
