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- From: tsullivan@trentu.ca (The OTHER One True God)
- Subject: Re: Borland licences (was about old copies of TP)
- Message-ID: <23NOV199213421066@trentu.ca>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:42:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.233555.1705@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>, CHEGC@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU (CROSS,Graeme) writes...
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- >>> It's that last clause that worries me: lots of programs I write could be
- >>> seen as "generally competitive with" Borland Language products.
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- >* Is a programmer's editor a development tool? Disassemblers? What about my
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- Note the phrasing. Any Borland LANGUAGE Product (read: TP, BP, TC++,
- BC++, DBASE IV and Paradox). It doesn't include editors (ie BRIEF),
- debuggers, interpreters, etc. Nor does it include Turbo Vision. It means
- you can't write (using TP) a TP-compatible compiler that does allow .OBJ
- file creation, and is faster than TP, and sell it. Which isn't exactly
- totalitarianism, for the simple reason that you wouldn't WANT to do a
- project like that in Pascal (well, you might want to, but likly wouldn't).
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- >Today's special sig: As the years go by, Borland go downhill faster & faster...
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- I doubt it. Borland puts out the highest quality PC compilers. Unless
- Stonybrook can speed up SBP+ by about 1000%, Borland doesn't have to worry.
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- Tim Sullivan
- tsullivan@trentu.ca
- cstes@blaze.trentu.ca
-
- A Disclaimer? Yeah, and people BELIEVE what I write, too...
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- "Virtual Reality has NOTHING on Calvin."
- - Suzy, from Calvin and Hobbes
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