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- From: lef@plsparc.UUCP (Lawrence E. Fitzpatrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Subject: Re: Is Borland the leader in technology?
- Message-ID: <382@plsparc.UUCP>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 15:18:05 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.124222.12003@bsu-ucs> <1eecf5INNim8@early-bird.think.com> <13564@coxm>
- Organization: Personal Library Software, Inc.
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- In article <13564@coxm> coxm@Software.Mitel.COM (Michael Cox) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov17.124222.12003@bsu-ucs> 00skolis@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
- >>>Borland claims to be the leader in Object Oriented Programming. Why do
- >
- >I think the real reason that they feel they can lay such a claim is that (from
- >what I've heard in the press) they have mandated ALL software in Borland be
- >written in C++ (I guess with the exception of a bit of assember) and with their
- >own compiler.
-
- Is this sort of like DOD mandating that ALL software be written in Ada?
- Is there a lesson here? I suspect that this is not really true, anyway
- -- e.g., do they write their Pascal stuff in C++?
-
- Although this would explain how the C (and derivative) products have
- recently become more "industrial strength" than in the past (in our
- experience, just with 3.1!).
-
- -lef
-
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