3/3/2023 0 Comments Microsoft visual c 1.52c![]() ![]() I learnt programming with Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++. I’m a little bitter and sad, as you can tell. The toolchain has a long history of supporting non-Windows platforms: did you know that Borland shipped C++ compilers for Nokia and Symbian mobile devices? Today you can use C++Builder for Windows and iOS. ![]() Here is a quote that demonstrates what Embarcadero thinks modern cross-platform support means: There is a link to a retrospective and a magazine review from 1997 of Borland C++ Builder v1, including the non-standard C++ features added by Borland in order to support RAD capabilities previously available in Delphi only. It supports FireMonkey, Embarcadero’s cross-platform GUI framework, but for some reason doesn’t use it to actually be cross-platform. Thy made C++ Builder v1 freely downloadable for nostalgic value, and there is also a free community version of the modern C++ Builder 11 which is still Windows-only and has a limit of $5000 revenue or more than 5 developers per company before you need to pay big bucks. For those like me who remember Turbo C and C++ fondly, this is a bittersweet article reminding how a great product can turn into something very few people use because of the inept owners. Celebrating 25 Years of C++BuilderĮmbarcadero posted an article celebrating 25 years of C++ Builder. You can toggle individual bits in sign, exponent and mantissa parts and see how it affects the represented value. It allows you to visualise the binary representation of floating-point numbers of various sizes. Ivor Hewitt told me about a cool website called Float Toy. Powered by RedCircle Follow-up: Float Toy ![]()
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