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- From: henley@eng.auburn.edu (James Paul Henley)
- Subject: Re: Is Borland the leader in technology?
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:18:53 GMT
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- 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
- >you feel they can hold this title in concern to the latest in technology?
- >I am looking to see what advantages they offer as opposed to other
- >companies.
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- I would say the Borland is the leader in making Object Oriented Programming
- avialable to the masses. Turbo Pascal, for example, gives a smooth transition
- from traditional programming to object oriented programming, and I think has
- the easiest learning curve. I started learning OOPs by taking some programs
- in Turbo Pascal, and converting things one by one to the OOP way of doing
- things. By the time I finished, I realized that it might have been better to
- start over from scratch, but I probably never would have attempted that.
-
- The similarity between objects and records in Turbo Pascal gives someone with
- a Pascal background a jump start in declaring static objects. Going to
- dynamic objects takes a while to get used to, but even then the transition
- to dynamic objects and virtual methods is fairly smooth. It just takes an
- attitude adjustment.
-
- The trick, of course, is to make the implementation of objects independent of
- the design of objects, even to the point of Language independence, and here
- again Borland is going strong with two major Object Oriented Languages for
- Windows. Borland Pascal 7 will allow DLL's to be called from DOS programs,
- so they will achieve a degree of operating system independence.
-
- James P. Henley Jr.
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Auburn University
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