Turbo Pascal started off as Compass Pascal from Denmark. Turbo Pascal provided a very cheap product with compile times that were so fast as to give a compile/test cycle that was as good as from an interpreter. When Turbo Pascal originally came out, it was mainly competing against interpreted Basic (with GOTOs and line numbers). They were seen as revolutionary in their day, as they brought quite good compilers (and later IDEs) at very reasonable prices to the masses. I used the original TurboPascal 3 on MSDOS, Turbopascal 4, and Turbo C back when these were pretty good products at what at the time were very low prices. It's an understandable business decision from both perspectives, but it leads to ever-increasing prices to squeeze out that last bit of cash from each remaining customer.
Borland c++ gui code#
They're probably mainly milking the users with an existing code base which they can't justify porting to use new libraries.
Borland c++ gui plus#
£3,612.60, plus VAT - I rather suspect that they're not getting many new users these days. But hey - at least I still get to play with Anders' creations :) I was even a member of their TeamB for a couple of years until a takeover at work dragged me over to Visual Studio. The only criticism you could hold against C++ VCL was that it required a couple of none standard extensions to support the event model and properties. Well.I also chuckle a bit when I think of all those C++ developers fighting MFC when I was enjoying the benefits of the VCL. I've often thought it was a bit sad that MFC remained the dominant C++ framework for so long. It meant we could use nearly all the existing Delphi components and even write components for Delphi developers. They just wrapped the Delphi VCL and made it linkable. They did it in a very clever way (probably thanks to Anders Hejlsberg who is a personal hero of mine). Borland Builder 1.0 was released in 1997.
Borland C++ goes way back.in 1992 also targeted Windows, using the Object Windows Library (OWL) framework which many developers regarded as superior to the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC).īorland was also offering a RAD C++ development environment for a long time.
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