pcmag.com — Shortly after the original IBM PC appeared, a tiny upstart company with the big name Borland International rocked the programming world by releasing its Turbo Pascal compiler. Today Borland announces a revival of the Turbo Pascal spirit with its new line of Turbo development tools
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superc00kieAug 7, 2006
Now that's good news! I've always been a fan of Borland compilers. Turbo Pascal was the first compiler I ever used. Also cool that they have a free version; Delphi was beginning to get very expensive.
darkelf109Aug 8, 2006
Hahaha...My high school still teaches Pascal in Intro to Programming...
restonAug 8, 2006
I am confused by the fact that Borland became Enprise several years ago, who is Borland now? the same group of guys from Scott's Valley Ca, or others.TP was widely distributed by 1984, that and Sidekick were staples of my system back then.
brslyAug 8, 2006
It wasn't the first compiler I used, but they were available many years for a free download until this broke at:<a class="user" href="http://bdn.borland.com/museum">http://bdn.borland.com/museum</a>
jleejleeAug 8, 2006
Also, Borland is focusing on ALM (application lifecycle management) services to large corporations and not developers anymore, so they are spinning off the Developer Tools Group into a new company that *IS* focused directly on developers large and small. It is this new company (named "DevCo" in the interim) that is committed to us - the developers.The development tools were NEVER "shelved", sunsetted, or otherwise abandoned in any way, shape, or form--contrary to some ads by other developer companies engaging in disinformation.
moochaAug 8, 2006
Somehow people seem to not have noticed that the free Explorer versions will NOT support adding any components to the component palette except those already included with it.Yes, you can get by without the visual support, but it can be very tedious.So it's a nice thing (especially for Pascal where Microsoft does not compete directly), but I hope Borland won't expect anyone to use their .NET based tools when Microsoft gives away its Express editions for free...
raindog469Aug 8, 2006
jma, you'll have to pony up around $500 for the pro version if you want to use third party components, according to TFA....
skykhan72Aug 8, 2006
Tutorial - MultiThreading Delphi Way<a class="user" href="http://www.eonclash.com/Tutorials/Multithreading/MartinHarvey1.1/ToC.html">http://www.eonclash.com/Tutorials/Multithreading/MartinHarvey1.1/ToC.html</a>
spgilmoreAug 10, 2006
The museum link still works. Just click the link, pick the article for the IDE you want, and read the document under the section "How to download". There is a link in the first sentence.
spgilmoreAug 10, 2006
Right now, I have to pay $3500 for their top of the line edition of Delphi, and it's worth every penny. EVERY penny. $500 for their top version is music to my ears. The difference seems to be that Dephi 2006 contains C#, C++, Delphi for .NET and Delphi for Win32 for $3500. for $500, you would only get one of the four.
nickhodgesAug 12, 2006
Borland is "leaving" the IDE business because they are selling their Developer Tools Group to be it's own company. All the Borland IDE tools, as well as Interbase, are alive and kicking,