Danny Thorpe - Borland Chief Scientist

Danny Thorpe is a Borland Chief Scientist responsible for strategic research in software development tools for the Microsoft Windows, Microsoft .NET, and Linux platforms. He was a member of the team that created the Borland Delphi rapid application development environment in 1995, a founding member of the Borland Kylix project on the Linux platform, and is now the Delphi compiler architect and lead engineer of the Delphi for .NET development team at Borland. He also had a hand in the creation of "Space Cadet Pinball" distributed by Microsoft, and "Full Tilt! Pinball" distributed by Maxis. 
 
So Danny, why don't you tell us little bit about yourself and what you do at Borland and a little bit about some of the work you have been doing over the past couple of years?
I've been with Borland for almost 14 years now and just recently been promoted to Chief Scientist in the .NET tools group and past couple of years I have been mostly been working on the Delphi compiler, first for Linux porting it to Linux and then porting it to the .NET platform and that was a massive undertaking and going further back, I actually started in Borland in software testing and went over to the dark side to engineering, right around Delphi moved to 32 bit.