Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : hollowone
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Jan 08 2024 06:30:00

-=> hollowone wrote to Nightfox <=-

 ho> Some tried Delphi, but only for some DB apps.. Delphi never was as
 ho> universal as Borland/Turbo Pascal could be. I believe one of the
 ho> reasons of Borland's demise, shortly after.

I live near Santa Cruz, and drive by the old Borland building
occasionally, Seagate's old office (the address was 1 disk drive...) and
where I took a UNIX training class at SCO.

A friend of mine went sailing on Philippe Kahn's sailboat a few years
ago, just before Covid. Apparently life after Borland is treating him
well.

.... It is quite possible (after all)
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