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Borland Releases New C++ Toolkit

Posted by simoniker on 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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  1. About Damn Time. by PakProtector · · 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 · · 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 · · Score: 5, Funny

      You're talking about this sybian, I assume.

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    3. Re:About Damn Time. by Brandybuck · · 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 · · 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

  2. Borland? by wmaker · · 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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  3. IDE? by grub · · Score: 2, Funny


    .. a multiplatform IDE ..

    Is that like a multiplatform SCSI or multiplatform Fiberchannel?

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  4. wrong it says by Anonymous Coward · · 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!

  5. But I thought... by BitwizeGHC · · Score: 2, Funny

    Visual Basic professionals were the largest group of developers?

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    1. Re:But I thought... by MosesJones · · Score: 2, Funny


      Officially Visual Basic developers are classified as "cleaners with additional training"

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  6. ha ha ha by drinkypoo · · 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 · · 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 · · 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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  7. C++ Future Development??? by Anonymous Coward · · 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 · · 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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  8. Re:Has to be said. by wmaker · · Score: 2, Funny

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

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  9. Re:But... by buzzsport · · 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.)

  10. Re:System requirements seem a bit extreme... by I8TheWorm · · 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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  11. Kha-ZAM!!! by mod_parent_down · · 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.

  12. Re:No Screenshots? by Anonymous Coward · · 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!