Subj : Re: Delphi 2005 Architect up for grabs
To   : comp.programming
From : Rob Thorpe
Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 03:35 am

Richard Heathfield wrote:
> Huw Collingbourne said:
>
> > I thought you might like to know that Borland has given us three copies of
> > Delphi 2005 Architect to give away in a competition in Bitwise Magazine
> > www.bitwisemag.com this month. This is the top end Delphi ($3,490)
>
> How kind! ...
>
> > with C#
> > and Pascal for Win32 and .NET.
>
> and how unkind. Borland always did excel at balancing good with bad.
>
> >
> > best wishes
> > Huw Collingbourne
>
> Where did HE spring up from?
>
> I wonder if he still writes in PC Plus. In fact, I wonder if PC Plus is
> still produced.
>
> I still have several (like, six or seven) copies of a single PC Plus issue
> kicking around somewhere from about 1998, because it had C++ Builder on the
> cover CD! Cost me about forty quid, IIRC. The plan was to give them away in
> programming competitions - and I did go as far as to hold one competition,
> until I worked out the obvious flaw (i.e. the number of entries for any
> programming competition is either 0, 1, or infinity).

I have a 2000 copy of PCPlus with a DVD on the front containing:
SUSE 6.4, Borland C++ builder 4 and JBuilder 3.

A whole generation of programmers in the UK were introduced to free and
open source software by it.

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