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- From: rpomeroy@aunext3.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Subject: Re: Is Borland the leader in technology?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.144759.1958@dvorak.amd.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 14:47:59 GMT
- References: <henley.921120131853@wilbur.eng.auburn.edu>
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- In article <henley.921120131853@wilbur.eng.auburn.edu> henley@eng.auburn.edu
- (James Paul Henley) 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
- >>>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.
- >>
- >>
- >>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
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ick ! ...Talk about leading someone down the primrose
- path :-) Use a fair amout of these and
- watch performance evaporate.
- --
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