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Delphi 2.0, released this month by Borland International Inc., will more than live up to Version 1.0's well-earned reputation for superior speed and software engineering discipline. We'd recommend Delphi 2.0, […]

What's New In Visual Basic 4.0 * 32-bit support for Windows 95 and Windows NT * OCX support with automatic upgrading of like-named VBX controls * Enhanced database engine, data […]

WinMaker Pro 6.0 BLUE SKY SOFTWARE CORP. Pros: C/C++ tool sets already familiar to developers; produces smallest executable files. Cons: Most difficult to learn for inexperienced developers; generated code was […]

By Peter Coffee SOFTWARE PUBLISHING CORP.'S SUperbase 4 Windows 1.3 tied with Within Technologies Inc.'s Realizer 1.0 for second place in composite Shoot-Out score, and placed second only to Asymetrix […]

By Peter Coffee THE PC WEEK LABS SHOOT-OUT OF high-level Windows development tools, held on the opening day of the Windows & OS/2 Conference in San Jose, Calif., last month, […]

By Peter C. Coffee One of the most touted benefits of object-oriented programming is its potential for simplifying the reuse of code. Alas, much code doesn't even deserve to be […]

V I T A L S I G N S By Peter C. Coffee As distributed database applications become the norm, interactive front ends may need to run on many […]

By Peter Coffee As corporate computing enters the 1990s, software developers face a daunting combination of growing complexity and rising user expectations. Many developers believe that object-oriented techniques are a […]

Microsoft packs 'more' in 4.2, but popular C++ is still a tough trek up a long slope A journey of a thousand miles may start with a single step, but […]

The low end of Powersoft's Optima++ lineup scores high on speed, convenience; uses a standard language Developers who crave the productivity of a rapid application development tool but don't want […]

Microsoft Corp.'s Visual C++ 4.0 can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but it does put a pretty dress on an unwieldy pig of a language. Developers […]

For Your Information Product Company Phone VisualAge C++ for OS/2 3.0 IBM (800) 426-3333 Armonk, N.Y. (914) 765-1900 Borland C++ for Windows 4.51 Borland Int'l. (800) 233-2444 (for Windows, Win32) […]

Symantec Corp.'s C++ 7.0 combines a uniquely powerful development environment with an eclectic choice of host and target platforms, letting C++ programmers upgrade their tool sets without being forced to […]

Zinc Application Framework 4.0, from Zinc Software Inc., has turned the sow's ear of the cryptic, machine-dependent C++ programming language into a silk purse of productive, portable application-development technology, which […]

The new ActivAda for Windows, released by Alsys Inc. in October, combines productive ease of use with high readability of code and robust semantics for building complex systems. The $995 […]

Digitalk's Team/V For 10 years, the Smalltalk programming language has been both blessed and cursed by its development model of adding new classes to a master hierarchy of object types […]

To be considered as more than a multitasking utility for DOS and Windows applications, OS/2 2.0 must offer unique system services that promptly deliver meaningful benefits. This depends on powerful […]

By Peter C. Coffee While PC users are enjoying a variety of applications that use high-level graphics, such as paint programs and advanced spreadsheets, they also need task-specific graphics programs […]

By Peter C. Coffee Although windows and menus are the most obvious parts of a graphical user interface, the quality of the dialog boxes can make a more important contribution […]

By Peter Coffee LISP can be a secret weapon for developers pushing the limits of new computing environments. Recent object-oriented and graphical user interface extensions to the programming language make […]

By Peter Coffee The Modula-2 programming language is just more than 8 years old -- less than half the age of C -- and is ready to enjoy the same […]

Digitalk Inc. SMALLTALK/V PM 1.1 For the new developer trying to unlock the philosophy of modern systems design, Smalltalk/V is like a ring of neatly labeled master keys. Rather than […]

By Peter Coffee PC industry leaders often point with pride to the $15 billion base of MS-DOS applications. This pales, however, in comparison with the estimated trillion-dollar base of COBOL […]

Olympic speed skater Chad Hedrick, one gold medal in hand and others likely to follow, reminds us that talent first seen on one platform may find its best outlet somewhere […]

Like the phrase 'Personal Computer' after IBM trademarked 'IBM PC' in 1981, the generic label of 'managed code' has apparently acquired a vendor-specific aura--as I learned from readers' comments on […]

It's often said, and I agree, that ''Better' is the enemy of 'good enough''--but I'm not prepared to declare myself the loyal ally of one or the other. There are […]

If Borland Software Corp.'s JBuilder 9 was a single flower of java- focused development technology, the company's August debut release of its new C#Builder is an entire rainforest of enterprise […]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY JBuilder 9 JBuilder 9 is a surprisingly significant upgrade to Borland's exemplary Java development environment, incorporating project life-cycle management technologies acquired by the company since the last release […]

Microsoft Corp.'s Visual Studio .Net 2003, released the same week as Windows Server 2003, walks hand-in-hand with that platform to help buyers discover its benefits for distributed service deployment. eWEEK […]

As we head this week for San Francisco and the seventh annual JavaOne conference, I can tell you that one of the things most worth seeing will be M7 Web […]

When I posted my review of Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net on our Web site, I included an interactive poll to learn more about your interests and concerns. (You can review […]

Microsoft Corp.'s Visual Studio .Net, making its formal debut this week, is a good news/bad news proposition for app developers. The good news, as we'll discuss in a review next […]

Developers will find Microsoft Corp.'s Office XP Web Services Tool kit a mixed offering: It eases the initial shock of confronting a new application model, but it also highlights the […]

If there's one thing that a Java development platform should be able to produce and host, it's a first-rate integrated Java development environment. Many candidates for that title have come […]

Microsoft's forthcoming visual studio .net development suite, especially its Enterprise Architect edition, will refocus developers' efforts and expectations more than any previous generation of programming tools or application design/maintenance systems. […]

During lunch at the international Python developers conference this month, I found myself at a table with several application developers who work for medical service providers. We were talking about […]

Large-scale corporate deployment of low-cost Linux desktop systems could move into the mainstream by the end of this quarter, propelled by Borland Software Corp.'s release of its long-awaited Kylix, a […]

Like blind men confronting an elephant, designers of Java development tool sets each seem to seize upon a different feature of the large, increasingly complex task that confronts them. A […]

Inprise corp. believes if you give the technology away, developers will come. The Scotts Valley, Calif., company will give away via the Web the latest version of its Borland C++ […]

Borland c++ Builder 5, due to ship this quarter from Inprise Corp., brings developers the productivity and Web fluency of Borland Delphi 5 with no need to learn Pascal. Inprise […]

It's ironic that despite the enormous advances in every other aspect of computing, programmers still write code one character at a time with what's little more than a typewriter on […]

Little more than four years have passed since the debut of Delphi's highly integrated, Pascal-based environment. Beginning with Release 1.0, though, Delphi set new standards for combining convenience with discipline […]

For several years, Sun and other proponents of the Java language and platform have painted an Impressionist portrait of the future of application development, stroking the canvas broadly with rosy […]

With new coding aids that accelerate the learning of rule-based programming techniques, the Aion 8.1.1 development system invites evaluation by multitier application builders. The final-release code of this update to […]

I know that it sounds like a plot synopsis for a second-rate episode of 'The X-Files': 'Journalist gains access to internal document of major corporation, realizes that public statements conceal […]

Developers who want to streamline repetitive tasks while retaining control of application appearance and behavior will appreciate the adaptive coding aids, called Wizatrons, in TopSpeed Corp.'s Clarion 5 Enterprise Edition. […]

The road to an IT choice is paved with seductive ease of use. What Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model and Windows NT have lacked in platform neutrality and enterprise scalability, […]

Java development system proves fast, powerful; GUI needs polish Symantec Corp.'s Visual Cafe 2.5 offers Java developers a fast and flexible development system, with expanded facilities for creating and debugging […]

PC Week Labs Executive Summary: Cosmo Code 2.5 Cosmo Software serves both component assemblers and down-to-the-byte-code Java programmers with its attractive, capable integrated programming environment. USABILITY: B CAPABILITY: B PERFORMANCE: […]

Java Studio 1.0 Anyone who's been frustrated by the awkward compromises of other visual programming tools should have a look at SunSoft's Java Studio, which lets novices or component assemblers […]