Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Oct 2009 14:47 UTC
Let's do a little trip down memory lane. We're talking the '80s, early '90s, and we're looking at a company called Borland, which produced several well-known and popular products related to software development. Back in those days, Borland had an end user license agreement. However, contrary to the EULAs we know and despise today, Borland's 'No-Nonsense License Statement' was a whole lot simpler, and in fact, is a perfect example of how software should be treated.
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2005-07-12
I'd take that statement one step further as IMHO the VCL is no match for OWL when it comes to simplicity of writing a windows program.
I loved OWL, particularly under TPW 1.5 - it was SO much easier for me to deal with than the Delphi/VCL was - hell in a number of ways the lack of a toolkit I could actually wrap my head around that worked native 32 bit (or under 64 bit OS at all) is what drove me to start writing web applications instead of continuing to use TPW.
But I have some wierd mental block in that department - I can hand compile Z80 machine language, but can't make the least bit of sense out of visual programming.
Edited 2009-10-16 20:33 UTC