30 years ago and Borland had a compiled language that was almost as fast as working with an interpreted language. Compile and link in seconds on 8Mhz machines:<p>"At $50 for the Borland product vs. the Microsoft $400 compiler, it was a bit like comparing a VW to a Porsche. But while Turbo Pascal was lighter weight for serious development, it was almost as quick for programming and debugging as Microsoft’s BASIC interpreters."<p>Found this article where the guy claims that the technology was folded into Delphi and it was probably about 1 million lines per minute on much faster hardware:<p><a href="http://prog21.dadgum.com/47.html" rel="nofollow">http://prog21.dadgum.com/47.html</a>
"So, in January of 1985 I transitioned over the Windows team"<p>"By November, we had finished testing and come up with a solid release."<p>Windows was <i>announced</i> in November of 1983.<p>I guess what I am saying is that for Windows 1.0, this guy was most likely not that instrumental.