““Being a developer myself I needed a tool that would make me more productive,” [#Borland founder Philippe] Kahn told eWEEK. “I had worked on integrated development environments as a student of Niklaus #Wirth at the ETH [Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule] in Zurich. I give a lot of credit to Niklaus for inspiration.
Then it was a matter of putting it all together. My partner wrote the compiler, and it was fast. Yet most of the development time was used in going back and forth between source code and execution. Then debugging the executed program. So we decided that a fast one-pass compiler was the way to go because it allowed us to pinpoint runtime errors right into the source code,” Kahn said.” #history
on 02025-10-12“[#Borland founder Philippe] Kahn, a 34-year-old mathematics instructor-turned-programmer-turned-entrepreneur, wrote about one-third of the programming code of Turbo Pascal. He says the last of his code to get into a commercial product was the phone dialer in Sidekick.” #news from 01988. #history
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