Borland C++ Insider (1995)

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Borland C++ Insider was my second book contract but was actually published third, at a time when the version I wrote about was already obsolete by the time the book reached the shelves, meaning it did not sell well even though the book itself was pretty good, presenting object-oriented programming techniques as applied to C++, a language written specifically for object-oriented programming. And even though the examples still worked in the newer version, no one was interested in buying a book for an old version of the development environment.

Borland C++ Insider did not come with a floppy disk, which probably also didn't help sales. Instead, the examples were posted on Coriolis' web site. (Or maybe it was Wiley & Sons' web site.) In any case, that source is no longer available so, on the off-chance that someone still needs these files, you can download them from here is the code this link.