Hello Tommy!
Sunday October 20 1996 09:25, Tommy Usher wrote to Derek Benner:
 > No, for me it is rather frightening.....  Since he is the original
 > author of Turbo Pascal, it does not sound like Borland is doing as well
 > as hoped....
Let me include two messages from the comp.lang.pascal.delphi newsgroups. I 
think they cover enough information to indicate that Delphi won't die when 
Anders is gone.
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From: jeroenp@dragons.nest.nl (Jeroen Pluimers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc
Subject: Anders gone to Microsoft - Is Delphi dead?
Message-ID: 
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 02:37:00 +0100
Monday October 21 1996 18:07, khawes@getsoftware.com wrote:
 > Having worked with Chuck Jazdzewski in the past and witnessed some his
 > discussions with Anders.  I believe that Chuck is up to the task of
 > taking Delphi foreword.  I just hope that MicroSoft doesn't find
 > Chuck's phone number any time soon.
Chuck is not the only bright guy in the Delphi team, there are many more (I
won't name them, but many people know how to find their name list). According
to one of the members, the Delphi team now 'has the critical mass' to produce
scheduled main releases every year.
With the leave of Anders, Chuck has been promoted to Chief Architect of 
Delphi.
Of course there will be other shifts as well, and probably some new blood
coming into the Delphi R&D team, but this same practice happens in every R&D
team of every big company.
 > With the new compiler back end in
 > Delphi 2.0 much less of Delphi is tied to Anders' all assembler
 > Turbo/Borland Pascal/Delhi 1.0 compiler of the past.
According to Anders, he has been far less busy with the compiler core than
during the Turbo/Borland Pascal era. Of course this was not by coincidence:
would you want to do the same kind of work year after year after year after
year?
Jeroen
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From: jeroenp@dragons.nest.nl (Jeroen Pluimers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc
Subject: Hejlsberg Left Borland?
Message-ID: 
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:19:00 +0100
Sorry to break the thread, but below is the message from Anders Hejlsberg on
the compuserve BDELPHI32 forum.
Jeroen
Delphi/Borland Pascal training and consultancy
Badhoevedorp
The Netherlands
#: 61213 S1/Non Tech-General  (CIS:BDELPHI32)
)1  19-Oct-96  00:42:27
Sb: Anders leaving?
Fm: Anders Hejlsberg (Borlan 76117,2115
To: Richard Salit 71035,343 (X)
Replies: 20   TID: 15495     Par: 60749     Chd: 61225     Sib: 0
As you may have heard, I will be leaving Borland by the end of the month
to take a job at Microsoft. This has not been an easy decision to make,
but I have now been with Borland for 13 years, and I feel that it is time
for me to try some new challenges.
For those of you worried about Delphi's future, I want to assure you that
the product is in the hands of an incredibly competent team of people for
whom I harbor the deepest respect. Back in the old Turbo Pascal days it was
possible for one person to write and maintain an entire product. This
is no longer the case. Delphi was built by a team, and I have full
confidence in the team's ability to develop and deliver new versions of
Delphi. In fact, the Delphi team at this point is almost twice the size
it was when we shipped 1.0 in early '95. And Delphi97 is going to be a
great product which solves a number of the problems you've been asking
us about, such as multi-tier database access and COM/ActiveX support.
When you build a product like Turbo Pascal or Delphi, it is incredibly
rewarding to see the enthusiasm of developers and the great applications
it's been used to create. I can't tell you how much I appreciate all of
the support you've given over the years.
Anders
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Jeroen - jeroenp@dragons.nest.nl - [100013,1443]
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