“Borland” — now there’s a blast from the past.
Phillipe Kahn was chairman, president, and CEO of Borland Inc. from its beginning in 1983 until 1995. Kahn was a student of Wirth.
Its first product was Turbo Pascal in 1983. Then Sidekick, Quattro Pro, Paradox database management. Borland purchased Ashton-Tate and got dBASE.
I used so many of those, but they are all distant memories now. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
I was a software engineer at Borland from 1994 to 2011, and I spent all of them on the Delphi team. To me it’s remarkable that such a small team was able to produce a world class development environment that exists to this day. It was an awesome experience working with such talented people.
IMHO Object Pascal is still the best programming language around, and the Delphi IDE is still miles ahead of any other especially in its visual design capabilities.