Borland legend, Master Li Wei. If you want to know the history of Borland's legendary company or want to understand the evolution of Delphi, C / C , Java and other development tools, this book will be your best choice.
Masters in Li Wei, Delphi, but I have more admiring his literary skills. In my opinion, people who can talk about techniques with vivid and lively handles are masters, he counts one. The author opened a multi-thread (^_^), about three main lines: one is introducing Borland's development, one is introducing the development of development tools, and one is to introduce Borland's genius experts. In fact, the three are closely combined, because Borland is a company-based company, and the pioneers of these computer circles are also working in Borland, so they are introduced more and more successful.
In the book, Li Wei, who is a lively hand, revealing the mysterious veil of Borland, truly introduces the development history of this company, by the start of the product and technology, and later as maketing, then To the high-efficiency Sale Force, then to the current mergers and acquisitions and cooperation, Borland has been flourishing, and there is also a low valley, can't help but make the hand plus, sometimes a wrist sigh. The author introduced a job about 'fuckborland' in Borland to be more reluctant.
The development of the development tool is even more exciting. Borland was named by Sidekick, and later by Delphi, it was later to fight C / C , Java development platform. The mixed war of a big company such as Microsoft, Symentic, IBM is exciting. During the period, I also introduced the key issues on the Symposium for Microsoft to the opponent, simulated on their own database products, and IBM and other companies were united with Borland to fight against Microsoft, etc., although it feels a bit, but It is also seen from another angle to the development of these companies. Because you are also a subject, it is novelty for these history.
Borland is definitely a cradle of a computer genius, Anders, Black Stone, etc. are growing in Borland, but in the end, it is dug a wall by Microsoft. No wonder some people play Borland's training school for Microsoft. The author of these genius experts is quite unique. For example, when you introduce Anders, in the early days of Borland, Anders was developed after developing Delphi, and the product was sold at low prices by Philippe Kahn. At that time, Anders was very angry, and philippe was a stupid, but Delphi made Borland a big profit, explaining Anders, although it is a computer genius but is obviously like Philippe, it is more real reflected in Anders. It is not a prostitute. There is also another closer to introduce the character of Black Stone:
"I still remember in Borcon in 1999, I have had a short conversation with Blake Stone, I understand why many people say Blake Stone is a genius-type software figure. At the time, I went to listen to one of them (how to adjust Interbase executive seminar, did not think of sitting down, then discovered that Blake Stone was sitting next to it. I have been in a dark observation. I saw a Notebook to write a procedure after Seminar. I thought, I thought, Blake participated in this seminar probably just the time, mainly writing JBuilder's programs, not really wants to listen to this seminar content. Choose Interbase this seminar is purely because people are less, not too much bouting. I know After Blake's move, I also wanted to move the body toward Blake, I hope to see what the program code written by the genius? But I am unexpectedly, when the seminar ends, the speaker begins to accept the question, Blake Constantly raise your hand. "The image of Blake Stone is flexible when the short scene is. It's really admirable, it is no wonder that Borland's youngest chief scientist, but also makes me feel the truth from the diligence. There are also some experts such as CHUNK, DENNIS, and so on are also full of legendary colors. The hero of these software industries is definitely the example of our consecutive generations.
If some of the introductions in front is just to see the novel, the last few chapters can be said to be a word bead, and you should read it seriously. Li Wei showed us the prediction of future software development and specified the direction for those confused software developers. I like his 'skeptical stripping', if you really can make a smooth stripping of software technology, even if the development of the software industry is rapid, we can also be unfavorable.
