David I Talks about C++Builder...
Borland's David I talks about the future of C++Builder and other Borland products with U.K. based Bitwise Magazine. Check it out!
Here are a few excerpts.
BITWISE: It seems that [C++ developers] have been forgotten a bit in recent years.
DAVID I: It's a good question and we have some good news for our C++ developers out there. Later this year we're coming out with a next generation of C++Builder for doing Win32 development with the VCL and it will be built on the same development environment that's in Delphi 2005... All the full support of debugging and advance features of editing and project systems the integration across the whole development process plus all the latest innovations in the Visual Component langauge will come to C++Builder customers in this next C++Builder version.
BITWISE: That's for Win32 only - there's no .Net?
DAVID I: Currently for Win32. The challenge I think for C++ is that we always tried to stay true to the ISO & ANSI C++ standard and the committe is still doing work on an update to the C++ lanaguage. Our plan is to continue to follow the ANSI committe and to impliment our compilier to match that international standard... Our customer's would rather that we adhere to industry standards and stay with whatever ultimately the ANSI committee is going to do.
BITWISE: So the [ANSI] committe thinks there isn't so much syntax in C++ yet?
DAVID I: Well there's a lot , but you know things always change. It's been at least 5 years since the ANSI C++ standard came out. There's work that's been done on standard libraries and enhancements to the libraries. And Microsoft and Borland have submitted our extensions to languages as proposals as well. In our C++Builder we added property, method and event modeler, component model and some extensions to the language, and we have given those to the committee to consider. And Microsoft has given their managed extensions as well - incarnations of those now. So, we'll see what the committe does and then once there is a standard emerging -- there's consesus in the community of what's going to happen -- we can modify our compiler. And our customers look to us to adhere to standards that way.
BITWISE: When do you think this version of C++Builder will be released?
DAVID I: Our goal is sometime later this year [2005] we will have an update for our C++Builder customers
Here are a few excerpts.
BITWISE: It seems that [C++ developers] have been forgotten a bit in recent years.
DAVID I: It's a good question and we have some good news for our C++ developers out there. Later this year we're coming out with a next generation of C++Builder for doing Win32 development with the VCL and it will be built on the same development environment that's in Delphi 2005... All the full support of debugging and advance features of editing and project systems the integration across the whole development process plus all the latest innovations in the Visual Component langauge will come to C++Builder customers in this next C++Builder version.
BITWISE: That's for Win32 only - there's no .Net?
DAVID I: Currently for Win32. The challenge I think for C++ is that we always tried to stay true to the ISO & ANSI C++ standard and the committe is still doing work on an update to the C++ lanaguage. Our plan is to continue to follow the ANSI committe and to impliment our compilier to match that international standard... Our customer's would rather that we adhere to industry standards and stay with whatever ultimately the ANSI committee is going to do.
BITWISE: So the [ANSI] committe thinks there isn't so much syntax in C++ yet?
DAVID I: Well there's a lot , but you know things always change. It's been at least 5 years since the ANSI C++ standard came out. There's work that's been done on standard libraries and enhancements to the libraries. And Microsoft and Borland have submitted our extensions to languages as proposals as well. In our C++Builder we added property, method and event modeler, component model and some extensions to the language, and we have given those to the committee to consider. And Microsoft has given their managed extensions as well - incarnations of those now. So, we'll see what the committe does and then once there is a standard emerging -- there's consesus in the community of what's going to happen -- we can modify our compiler. And our customers look to us to adhere to standards that way.
BITWISE: When do you think this version of C++Builder will be released?
DAVID I: Our goal is sometime later this year [2005] we will have an update for our C++Builder customers
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