Agreed: Borland was at its peak, and Turbo Pascal or Turbo C/C++ were used all the time. Turbo Vision was the framework under many applications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision

Also, Clipper was very popular at that time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_(programming_language)

Everytime I hear or read about hypergrowth my mind translates it into "cancer". Which it is. Sadly.

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