Contact: Dick O'Donnell Borland International, Inc. (408) 439-1631 Tami Casey Borland International, Inc. (408) 439-1619 BORLAND USHERS IN A NEW ERA OF PC SOFTWARE WITH OBJECT-ORIENTED TOOLS Company Ships Two New Object-Oriented Products: Turbo Pascal 5.5 and Turbo Debugger 1.5 SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.--May 23, 1989--Millions of software designers, programmers and personal computer users will soon be impacted by object-oriented technology, a major new trend for personal computer software design and use. This trend is marked by Borland International Inc.'s announcement today of the newest versions of Turbo Pascal and Turbo Debugger, both with powerful new object-oriented programming features. The new products represent the first implementation of object-oriented technology in a mainstream industry standard computer language. "Historically, the advent of 'standard components' has revolutionized whole industries including transportation, electronics and personal computers," said Borland chairman, president and CEO Philippe Kahn. "Now object-oriented programming tools will enable the development of standard software components, which will foster a revolution in the personal computer software industry." The benefit of object-oriented technology to software programmers comes in higher levels of productivity with more reusable code written within the framework of a modular, building block approach to program design and enhancement. Programmers will now be able to spend more time designing capabilities for software products, and less time with the basic mechanics of programs. Corporate programmers will more easily be able to develop software tailored to the needs of their companies. The benefit of object-oriented technology to personal computer users is the availability of more capable software products with fewer bugs, more intuitive user interfaces that will share common traits across different operating systems and software applications, and improved off-the-shelf software products that can be customized by non-programmers. Borland's Turbo Pascal, the worldwide standard for computer programming in the Pascal language, has sold more than 1.5 million copies since its introduction in 1983. Turbo Pascal 5.5 is the only object-oriented toolset that is fully compatible with the installed base of Turbo Pascal 4.0 and 5.0; a clear advantage over earlier research-oriented programming languages with objects. Product Highlights Turbo Pascal 5.5 combines the simplicity of Apple's Object Pascal language, with powerful extensions from the C++ object-oriented programming language including: static objects, object constants, static methods, constructors and destructors. Objects are so seamlessly integrated into Turbo Pascal, only four new keywords have been created, making Turbo Pascal a cleaner and more consistent syntax for object-oriented programming than any other Pascal product. Program designers have the control and flexibility to use either object-oriented features or traditional programming techniques. Turbo Pascal 5.5 was designed to be a high performance native code compiler, rather than an intermediate code interpreter. Turbo Pascal 5.5 is also well-suited to building very large programs, with the addition of smart linking and an intelligent overlay manager. An on-line tutorial in Turbo Pascal 5.5 provides a tour of the Integrated Development Environment and the Hypertext Help System with copy and paste is an ideal tool for novice programmers. Also included is a new Object-Oriented Programming Guide and a comprehensive User Guide and Technical Reference Manual. The new release of the stand-alone Turbo Debugger version 1.5 is an important part of Turbo Pascal Professional 5.5's appeal as a production-oriented programming tool. Turbo Debugger 1.5 is a complete debugging system for the development of large object-oriented programs. It is "object aware," and can deal with object instances and both static and virtual methods. Its object hierarchy browser and object type and instance inspectors allow the programmer to navigate through his program using the constructs on which it is based--objects. Turbo Pascal's advantages for both new and experienced programmers extend beyond the product itself: o On-line technical support is available on Borland's CompuServe Languages Forums, BIX, and GEnie. o Both The Turbo User Group and the Cobb Group publish Turbo Pascal journals and newsletters for Pascal programmers. o More than 70 books -- supplementing Turbo Pascal programming instruction at every skill level -- are available from leading book publishers such as Osborne/McGraw-Hill and Wiley & Sons. o More than 50 third party software vendors provide a variety of supplemental tools for Turbo Pascal. Turbo Pascal version 5.5 is $149.95. Turbo Pascal Professional version 5.5, which includes Turbo Debugger 1.5 and Turbo Assembler 1.01, is $250.00. The Turbo Pascal 5.5 Runtime Library is $150.00. Turbo Pascal 5.0 customers can upgrade to Turbo Pascal 5.5 for $34.95. Turbo Pascal 4.0 and 5.0 customers can upgrade to Turbo Pascal Professional 5.5 for $99.95. Turbo Pascal DiskTutor, a $39.95 book and program disk designed for new programmers and those learning object-oriented programming, will be released by Osborne/McGraw-Hill in August. McGraw-Hill and Mitchell Publishing will introduce to the educational market an in depth workbook titled Object-Oriented Turbo Pascal, A New Paradigm for Problem Solving and Programming, for $9.95 in August. Additional Turbo Pascal 5.5 book and textbook titles are scheduled for release this summer from other leading third party book publishers including Howard Sams, Que Corporation, John Wiley & Sons and Addison-Wesley. Borland International, Inc. is a leading developer of high-performance microcomputer software products. Borland's Professional Language Series includes critically acclaimed developer's tools such as Turbo C, Turbo Pascal and Turbo Assembler & Debugger. Borland offers in its Professional Business Series some of the world's most widely used business applications and developer's tools such as Paradox, Quattro, SideKick Plus, Reflex, Sprint and SideKick for Presentation Manager--the first application for IBM's OS/2 Presentation Manager. The Scotts Valley, Calif.-based company, founded in 1983, ranks among the leading U.S. microcomputer companies. ###