{"id":56,"date":"2006-09-03T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2006-09-03T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-03T13:56:00","slug":"turbo-pascal-rises-from-the-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/turbo-pascal-rises-from-the-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"Turbo Pascal Rises from the Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3385\/179\/1600\/turbocpp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3385\/179\/320\/turbocpp.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Turbo C++ Manual\"><\/a><br \/>Well Turbo Delphi and Turbo C++ along with new boys Turbo Delphi for .Net and Turbo C#. No Turbo Java just yet but it is promised.<\/p>\n<p>I bought Turbo Pascal 3.0 in 1986 for \u00a349.95. And Turbo C in 1989. Where did all those years go? There has been a feeling that Borland lost their way since the Inprise episode in 97\/98 (when Borland changed name and targetted big enterprises) and subsequently with each year a new version of Delphi\/CPPBuilder and JBuilder but very expensive products. Meanwhile Microsoft was busy recruiting Borland&#8217;s finest and developing C#.<\/p>\n<p>So the Borland spinoff\/oiffshoot named Devco releases 4 new products on Tuesday 5th September 2006 aimed at  developers like myself (20 years ago!). There are free versions (aimed at Microsoft&#8217;s Visual Express development systems) which seem pretty powerful according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turboexplorer.com\/\">their website<\/a> but until next Tuesday we won&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well Turbo Delphi and Turbo C++ along with new boys Turbo Delphi for .Net and Turbo C#. No Turbo Java just yet but it is promised. I bought Turbo Pascal 3.0 in 1986 for \u00a349.95. And Turbo C in 1989. Where did all those years go? There has been a feeling that Borland lost their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}