[DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero

[John Bird]

As I heard the story some years ago....cannot vouch for accuracy:

Microsoft courted Anders for quite a while, as a brilliant technical lead. 
Finally they sent a limousine to Borland to  take him out to lunch, and gave 
him an offer "he couldn't refuse":

He could choose what he worked on
They would double his salary
If he agreed to sign up that lunchtime they would give him $1 million.

He went.


There's a nice video on Channel 9 of him speaking on his history, and some 
Borland people turned up to add to it.

I think its 
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Behind+The+Code/Life-and-Times-of-Anders-Hejlsberg/

Would love to hear from those who have used both C# and Delphi their 
opinions on whether C# is Delphi done right or become bloated complex and 
MS-only.  I hear lots of nice comments about C#, and observe that many 
programmers who disappear  into that cave are never seen outside alive 
again...

John

> Are we talking about Anders Hejlsberg?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg
> He's a pretty smart guy.  I think he is the chief architect for C#
> rather than .net
>
>
> Leigh Wanstead wrote:
>> I don't understand why Delphi designer can move to Microsoft to be chief 
>> of dot net. Can someone explain it?
>>