{"id":1251,"date":"2006-08-24T00:25:17","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T00:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/archives\/2006-08-24-1251\/"},"modified":"2006-08-24T00:34:18","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T00:34:18","slug":"turbo-series-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/archives\/2006-08-24-turbo-series-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Turbo series is back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just read on Koen’s blog<\/a> that the Turbo products line will be revived<\/a>. Great stuff !<\/p>\n

I started my serious programming works on Turbo Pascal around 1990. It’s clear that the Turbo products was a breakthrough because of the following reasons :<\/p>\n

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  1. With the simple IDE (Integrated Development Environment), Borland significantly lowered the barrier of entry to programming. People can start to program and see results in very little time.<\/li>\n
  2. Excellent documentations – it’s not easy to find product documentations that’s of equal quality of Borland’s. For example; a Turbo product manual also includes a programming tutorial, aiming at complete newbies. So you don’t need to buy additional “Idiot’s Guide To ..” book – Turbo product already got you covered. Before O’Reilly’s book series, there were Borland products and its excellent user manuals.<\/li>\n
  3. Cheap – it was priced within a lot of people’s reach.<\/li>\n
  4. Because of the reasons above, Borland’s Turbo series has helped Microsoft to dominate the PC platform, even though they’ll hate to admit it. Among the reasons of the OS\/2’s failure (much to my grief) was lack of a big enough developer community (a vital ingredient to grow any platform). <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Too bad there’s no Linux version yet, I think that would really help to entice more newbies to Linux programming. Oh well, later perhaps.<\/p>\n

    In the mean time, kudos to everyone involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Just read on Koen’s blog that the Turbo products line will be revived. Great stuff ! I started my serious programming works on Turbo Pascal around 1990. It’s clear that the Turbo products was a breakthrough because of the following reasons : With the simple IDE (Integrated Development Environment), Borland significantly lowered the barrier of … Continue reading Turbo series is back<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-english","category-teknoblogia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harry.sufehmi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}