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I would say it would have helped...but that wouldn’t happen. Borland as a company depended on Delphi as a revenue source. Microsoft and Sun did not. So they
by cwbrandsma 6y ago
I would say it would have helped...but that wouldn’t happen. Borland as a company depended on Delphi as a revenue source.
Microsoft and Sun did not. So they could both give their products away for free and open source them, plus keep people working on those products.
- zabzonk 6y agoWell, Microsoft did and do make money from selling development tools and programming language products. Sun of course nearly went bust and were taken over by Oracle. So, maybe not good examples?
- daitangio 6y agoJava had a massive push by Sun. If you have a old java codebase, it is easy to "wrap" around a big proxy and continue to expand it in Java, without learning a new language. Language library is quite well optimized. I like Pascal but its scope rules are Crazy compared to C/Java/C#, nerveless Pascal compiler is reported faster than Java one
- Jtsummers 6y ago> I like Pascal but its scope rules are Crazy compared to C/Java/C#, nerveless Pascal compiler is reported faster than Java one Admittedly a long time since I used Pascal proper, but my recollection (and a quick search seems to confirm) that its scope rules are "simply" lexical scoping. Variables are visible only within the area they are declared and not outside, and variables can shadow variables from a higher level. So a global variable can become shadowed by a procedure variable. That's pretty much the same as the other languages use.