Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 08:39:42 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Francisco Reyes <fjrm@yahoo.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: www.tucows.com messed up with BSD link Message-ID: <20000808083941.A20815@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <200008072337.QAA07470@usr06.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 11:37:02PM %2B0000 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000804094036.05078a20@localhost> <200008072337.QAA07470@usr06.primenet.com>
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In <200008072337.QAA07470@usr06.primenet.com>, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Alas, Borland has been more guilty than most of jumping > > on bandwagons and ignoring better opportunities. That's why > > they devoted all of their resources to Windows, and nearly > > lost the entire company by doing so. Exactly. Imagine where they could have been by now if they put up the 90ties equivalent to Turbo Pascal for Linux and SunOS in 1995 or 1996. A save, approachable language, Modula-3 maybe, a simple but effective development environment, maybe even tty- based and some kind of stupid GUI library, extensible by the userbase. > I remember when I found a grevious bug in their C library, printf around %.2f, maybe? Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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