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From:
http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=185467,00.asp

New Borland Line Salutes Turbo Pascal Spirit
ARTICLE DATE:  08.07.06
By  Neil J. Rubenking

Shortly after the original IBM PC appeared, a tiny upstart company with the big
name Borland International rocked the programming world by releasing its Turbo
Pascal compiler. Typical programming language compilers of the day were
expensive, unwieldy, and unfriendly. Developing a program involved a vicious
cycle of writing code in an awkward editor, submitting it to the command-line
compiler, getting back a list of errors, and going back to the editor for
debugging. By contrast Turbo Pascal's Integrated Development Environment
allowed the programmer to go seamlessly from editing to compiling to debugging
and at $49.95 it cost less than a tenth of the going rate. Both cheap and
effective, it opened the world of programming to everybody.
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Today Borland announces a revival of the Turbo Pascal spirit with its new line
of Turbo development tools:
 Turbo Delphi for Windows
 Turbo C++ for Windows
 Turbo Delphi for .NET
 Turbo C# for .NET
Source code for these single-language modules is fully compatible with the
multi-language Borland Developer Studio line (which costs from $1,000 to
$3,500) and with Borland's Delphi, C++Builder, and C#Builder products. Each
will be available in a self-contained free Turbo Explorer edition and an
expandable Turbo Professional edition. Pricing for the Professional edition is
not yet settled, but it will be under $500 for the general public and under
$100 for students.

All of the Turbo products feature the visual programming style pioneered by
Borland. For example, the user can drop a button component on a form, adjust
its caption and other properties, and write a little code to say what should
happen when the button is clicked. The free Turbo Explorer editions include
over 200 built-in components. Some are simple, standard program elements like
buttons, text-boxes, and menus. Others give access to modern Windows features
like listviews, treeviews, and toolbars. But it doesn't stop there; with other
built-in components you can create your own database program, Web browser, or
media player in the same drag-and-drop style. Advanced users can build Web
services, Web-based applications, and more. And all but the C# product include
source code for the components. You can learn a lot by studying source code!
This all comes with the Turbo Explorer line, which is free for personal or
professional use.

If the built-in components don't quite do the job you can upgrade to the
Professional edition, which lets you add third-party components and even build
your own. The Turbo Professional products are compatible with the vast range of
existing free and commercial third-party components for Borland products. Grid
components to rival Excel, super-powered reporting tools, components for
connecting to specific hardware  the list is almost endless. Note, though, that
you can only install one of the four product types on a given machine; if you
need to use multiple languages, Borland figures you're a candidate for the
higher-end Borland Developer Studio product.

The Turbo products are still in beta testing, but general release is planned
for September 5. Starting today the www.turboexplorer.com site will go live.
According to David Intersimone, vice president of developer relations and chief
evangelist at Borland, the site will sport a retro red-yellow-black look based
on the original Turbo Pascal packaging and will include videos, code samples,
how-to information, and a countdown to product availability. David pointed out
that Borland is totally focused on developers  ALL developers, including casual
and beginning developers. "This is just the start," he said. "We're
revitalizing and upping our efforts to do more for the world of programming,
bring some of the fun back, and the wizardry as well." If you've been wishing
you could learn programming but were put off by the high price and complexity
of full-scale development systems, the new Turbo line is just what you've been
waiting for.

[Finally!  Something not so expensive and good for "causal programmers" like
me... -S]

Later,
Sean

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