On 20 Oct 96 Jud McCranie said to Derek Benner...
 DB> Anders Hjelsberg (?) just quit Borland
 JM> Isn't he Borland's long-time compiler writer?
Understand he was the Dane who INVENTED Turbo Pascal (not Pascal itself,
that was Swiss Nicholas Wirth).  Borland's ex-ceo Phillipe Kahn was just the
merchandiser.  Those of you who have come lately to Pascal may not
understand what a breakthrough product TP was.  Not only did it introduce
the concept of the IDE, it was also lightning fast, doing in a few seconds
what used to take my old Fortran compiler and ms linker 10 minutes or so on
a floppy-based 4.77 mHz 8088.  Imagine the improved speed of debugging, the
increase in productivity.  And all this in a .COM file of only 30K size !
Long may Anders' name be praised.
Sorry if I'm getting off-topic, Gary, but this guy deserves to be given the
credit he has earned but has never received.
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