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>> Borland was .. a very traditional closed company One of the great things about Borland was they published the source code to their VCL (their main platform
by hackerfromthefu 9y ago
>> Borland was .. a very traditional closed company
One of the great things about Borland was they published the source code to their VCL (their main platform library Delphi and C++ builder applications used). So you could read, learn from, troubleshoot and debug with the source code. At a time when Microsoft and most companies didn't.
And the VCL design patterns were/are incredibly elegant, and studying them an excellent and accessible way for an interested programmer to learn some real software architecture skills.