Borland Releases New C++ Toolkit

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Borland Releases New C++ Toolkit

Posted by simoniker on Monday September 15, 2003 @07:50AM from the c++-is-the-new-black dept.

shelleymonster writes "Infoworld points out that, after two years of coding, Borland has released its latest C++ development toolkit. Borland C++BuilderX is a multiplatform IDE for Windows, Linux, and Solaris that provides a brand-new visual development environment. Press release here." According to the Infoworld piece, "While newer languages, such as Java and Microsoft's C#, garner more attention than C++, research firm IDC projected that C and C++ professionals will remain the largest group of developers through 2005."

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About Damn Time. by PakProtector · 2003-09-15 07:53 · Score: 5, Funny

I've been waiting for this for a long time. I'm still using Borland C++ Builder 5.0. I think. Whatever the latest patch was.

I think it's time to break out the champange and do a happy-naked-pagan-dance 'round the stonehenge of mainframes in the back yard.

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1. Re:About Damn Time. by FroMan · 2003-09-15 08:03 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Bah, when I was a kid, we had to use Borland C++ 3.0. And we liked it.
  
  And when I was an embryo we had to use punch cards, and we liked it!
  
  You young'ins ain't got it tough, you and your new fangled gui's and champange and happy-naked-pagan-dances...
  
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2. Re:About Damn Time. by IM6100 · 2003-09-15 08:08 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You're talking about this sybian, I assume.
  
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3. Re:About Damn Time. by Brandybuck · 2003-09-15 08:58 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  You was lucky! We used to dream of using Turbo Pascal Version 2. When I was a kid we didn't get our supper until we had bootstrapped Wirth's original compiler with a Tiny Pascal interpreter we had from an old Byte magazine.
  
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4. Re:About Damn Time. by xybe · 2003-09-15 10:56 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  ROTFLMAO
  
  Re:About Damn Time. (Score:2, Informative)
  
  This is too much, moderators should at least follow the links, lest they mod informatice a site about the most venerable sex toy ever created thinking it is a decelopment platform
  
  On the bright side, this probably disprove any previous notions that ./ readers watch too much porn, anyone who know his porn would have known better
Borland? by wmaker · 2003-09-15 07:55 · Score: 2, Funny

What the hell is borland... i thought microsoft was the only c programming language developer.

j/k of course

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IDE? by grub · 2003-09-15 07:57 · Score: 2, Funny

.. a multiplatform IDE ..

Is that like a multiplatform SCSI or multiplatform Fiberchannel?

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wrong it says by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-15 07:58 · Score: 2, Funny

"According to analyst research firm IDC, C and C++ professionals will remain the largest class of developers through 20051. "

year 20051?! HOLY SHIT MAN! OWNAGE!
But I thought... by BitwizeGHC · 2003-09-15 07:58 · Score: 2, Funny

Visual Basic professionals were the largest group of developers?

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1. Re:But I thought... by MosesJones · 2003-09-15 08:28 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Officially Visual Basic developers are classified as "cleaners with additional training"
  
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ha ha ha by drinkypoo · 2003-09-15 07:59 · Score: 5, Funny

research firm IDC projected that C and C++ professionals will remain the largest group of developers through 2005

C vs. C++ is like vi vs. emacs. Saying that C and C++ professionals are one group is like suggesting a fusion between Megadeth and N'Sync.

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1. Re:ha ha ha by RevMike · 2003-09-15 08:02 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  C vs. C++ is like vi vs. emacs. Saying that C and C++ professionals are one group is like suggesting a fusion between Megadeth and N'Sync.
  Kernighan = Lemmy, Straustoupe (sp?) = Timberlake
2. Re:ha ha ha by dustmote · 2003-09-15 08:27 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Megasync? Or N'Death? I'm trying to visualize the videos for bands with these names, and I'm not sure I like what I see. :)
  
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C++ Future Development??? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-15 08:00 · Score: 4, Funny

"...IDC projected that C and C++ professionals will remain the largest group of developers through 2005."

Then why have I been out of work for over 2 years?
1. Re:C++ Future Development??? by fucksl4shd0t · 2003-09-15 09:53 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Then why have I been out of work for over 2 years?
  In other news, recent studies show that developers are largest group of unemployed IT professionals.
  
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Re:Has to be said. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-15 08:01 · Score: 1, Funny

... and C# is to C as Apple is to Orange
One Word... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-15 08:02 · Score: 0, Funny

Dubya...
Re:Has to be said. by wmaker · 2003-09-15 08:03 · Score: 2, Funny

...and you are about as cool as a kick in the nuts

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Re:More fragmentation == No Linux on the desktop! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-15 08:05 · Score: 1, Funny

Yeah because most home users do a lot of C++ development. I know my mother was writing a Quickbooks clone for Linux just the other day and she wasn't complaining.
Re:But... by buzzsport · 2003-09-15 08:08 · Score: 2, Funny

It will be released as soon as M$ releases Visual Cobol. (I actually had a running bet with a CS professor who insisted that they would see the light and release one by 2000.)
Re:System requirements seem a bit extreme... by I8TheWorm · 2003-09-15 08:09 · Score: 3, Funny

What do you expect from an IDE written in Java? Isn't that a little like trying to write an OS in VB?

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Kha-ZAM!!! by mod_parent_down · 2003-09-15 08:11 · Score: 3, Funny

Damn! I want my name to be "Jonathon Khazam". Except, I wouldn't go around saying things like:
Borland is a leader in C++ development
I'd be all like "Khazam!!! MS can kizziss my kizzass!" People would dig that shit in press releases.
Re:Marketing execs: LISTEN UP by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-15 08:19 · Score: 1, Funny

Agreed!
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isn't that an oxymoron? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-15 08:31 · Score: 1, Funny

Visual Basic professionals
Re:System requirements seem a bit extreme... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-15 08:41 · Score: 1, Funny

No, it's like trying to write an IDE with Java.
Re:No Screenshots? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-15 08:51 · Score: 2, Funny

It's a such beautiful story, towards the end you just gotta have tears in your eyes when the "'Hello Borland C++BuilderX' does not run on Linux" bug is finally squashed.
Awesome!
Re:Has to be said. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-16 00:12 · Score: 1, Funny

Actually your comparison of apples and oranges isn't quite correct. to quote Apples and Oranges -- A Comparison:
by Scott A. Sandford, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California We have all been present at discussions (or arguments) in which one of the combatants attempts to clarify or strengthen a point by comparing the subject at hand with another item or situation more familiar to the audience or opponent. More often than not, this stratagem instantly results in the protest that "you're comparing apples and oranges!" This is generally perceived as being a telling blow to the analogy, since it is generally understood that apples and oranges cannot be compared. However, after being the recipient of just such an accusation, it occurred to me that there are several problems with dismissing analogies with the comparing apples and oranges defense. First, the statement that something is like comparing apples and oranges is a kind of analogy itself. That is, denigrating an analogy by accusing it of comparing apples and oranges is, in and of itself, comparing apples and oranges. More importantly, it is not difficult to demonstrate that apples and oranges can, in fact, be compared (see figure 1). Figure 1. Granny Smith Apple and Sunkist Orange Materials and Methods Both samples were prepared by gently desiccating them in a convection oven at low temperature over the course of several days. The dried samples were then mixed with potassium bromide and ground in a small ball-bearing mill for two minutes. One hundred milligrams of each of the resulting powders were then pressed into a circular pellet having a diameter of 1 cm and a thickness of approximately 1 mm. Spectra were taken at a resolution of 1 cm-1 using a Nicolet 740 FTIR spectrometer. Figure 2 shows a comparison of the 4000-400 cm-1 (2.5-25 mm) infrared transmission spectra of a Granny Smith apple and a Sunkist Navel orange. Figure. 2 Conclusions Not only was this comparison easy to make, but it is apparent from the figure that apples and oranges are very similar. Thus, it would appear that the comparing apples and oranges defense should no longer be considered valid. This is a somewhat startling revelation. It can be anticipated to have a dramatic effect on the strategies used in arguments and discussions in the future.