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Thats because Microsoft hired Anders Hjeilsberg, architect of Delphi, to create the .net platform and the C# language. And in the process signing the death warr
by rahoulb 6y ago
Thats because Microsoft hired Anders Hjeilsberg, architect of Delphi, to create the .net platform and the C# language. And in the process signing the death warrant for Borland (who created Delphi).
The rumour was Microsoft's own staff preferred using Delphi to their own tools, which is why they hired Hjeilsberg.
- Gehinnn 6y agoThe killing feature was not .Net for me, but the free and fully featured IDE. I hated to type out every public declaration twice in the Delphi 5 IDE I got from school. I remember that I hated the startup time of Visual Studio though. In Delphi 5, I typed invalid syntax to create a temporary bookmark: When I pressed F5 to compile the project, I immediately jumped to it. This was entirely impossible for C# programs.
- pjmlp 6y agoFirst of all, Anders was hired to create J++. Secondly, he only joined after been asked multiple times by ex-Borland colleges when he felt it wasn't his place any longer at Borland. https://youtu.be/0g-IjyFnrAM https://youtu.be/0g-IjyFnrAM
- andi999 6y agoBorland killed itself by switching to services.