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In article <1996Feb9.093206.46004@yogi.urz.unibas.ch>, eglis@ubaclu.unibas.ch (Simon Egli) writes:
> So, maybe it would help if everybody posts a mail to Borland, that they should
> move to Oberon, if they want to double their sales :)

No, because IMHO, Borland killed Pascal. As originally conceived, Pascal
was a teaching language, practically useless. But people liked it enough
that they extended it to try to do useful work. Borland had the most
success with it, and practically built a company beginning with it.

Borland had the single most successful dialect of Pascal, but they
killed Pascal because they made no provisions for it going anywhere but
the PC. So when it came time to start thinking about multiple platforms
and multiple operating systems, there was no choice other than C. Other
platforms had their own useful dialects of Pascal, but they didn't
match each other, and they didn't match Borland, and had no chance on
the PC.

If only:
  Pascal had been conceived a little more usefully in the beginning,
or
  Borland had licensed Turbo Pascal extensions and library for other
  platforms,
things might be a bit different.

Besides that, Borland has been a bit ill, and is now betting the
company on Delphi. They're doing rather well with it, and probably
should try and stay the course. If you ask Borland for anything,
ask them to license Delphi on other platforms.

Dale Pontius
(NOT speaking for IBM)