Borland Announces the Return of the Turbo Products, with Video

Leonel writes "Borland Software's Developer Tools Group just announced the return of the Turbo line of products. With free and cheap versions, it's aimed at students, hobbyist developers, occupational developers and individual programming professionals. More information is available at the the Turbo Explorer website, including a video of the Adventures of TurboMan."

Comments

Re:Delphi???

[Leonel]

Delphi ain't your father's Pascal. It's a modern, object-oriented interoperable language. The main advantage isn't the language itself, but the class library (VCL) and the form designer, which is the best tool around to build user interfaces (ask Skype), while still having the ability of having your code neatly encapsulated in classes separated from the presentation layer.

Anyway, Delphi is only half of the picture here. There's Turbo C++ and C# offerings along with the native Delphi and Delphi for .Net offerings. if that's your language of choice, you can use C++ with the VCL (or for plain WinAPI applications, if you feel inclined).

Basically, the explorer versions are advanced IDEs for these languages, free of change, allowing commercial development. There's your motivation.

Re:Coincidence?

[nuzak]

> Interesting that the Borland tools are being released close to the end of the free year of MS's Express line (ending in Nov. I believe).

Microsoft lifted the end date back in April. It's being offered for free forever. Well, as long as forever goes with Microsoft (The VS2003 toolchain didn't take long to disappear).

Re:download

[blirp]

Are these available for download?

Well, there's that
    27 days, 9 hrs, 40 mins, 30 secs
    until the Turbo(s) are here!
timer there. Might explain the missing download links. :*)

Re:TurboC

[RuneB]

You might want to try SETEDIT or RHIDE. SETEDIT is an editor and RHIDE is an IDE, both written using the Turbo Vision toolkit.