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Relatively quickly we got Pascal, and the Borland dialect got widely adopted in the academia. Unfortunately, because of teething problems (various dialects, TP
by hdjjhhvvhga 4y ago
Relatively quickly we got Pascal, and the Borland dialect got widely adopted in the academia. Unfortunately, because of teething problems (various dialects, TP only available for DOS/Windows etc.), eventually it lost the battle with C. It's a pity as we would have to deal with much less bugs over those years.
- pjmlp 4y agoAlso note that the Borland dialect got inspiration from Apple's Object Pascal (TP 5.5) and UCSD (TP 4.0). The switch in what customer base to target was what done more damage to Borland, more than anything else. Delphi could still be a major language on the PC world at least.