Neven wrote: > Worth a crack though, Bristol! you have a good memory (or I make an > impression)
A bit of both really. People tell me I have a strong but quirky memory for remembering piles of semi-random trivia that I read once somewhere. Your mileage may very. Offer may not be valid in your state. Some assembly required. And yes, you are the sort of person who makes an impression. And you're plenty smart enough to know that. No need to be coy :-) I'd venture the more interesting question is more what _kind_ of impression that tends to be :-) > Re the VCL, I remeber talking to someone years ago who told me it was > orinally boosted from a > smalltalk library, can't recall who the original author was Interesting. I wonder if it was Morphic? It may well have been the inspiration. But the VCL it's miles away in spirit/implementation/design since the Smalltalk idea is about being wholely self-hosting (well, barring a Bitblt primitive or two between friends), definitely no surfacing non-smalltalk badly written crap into the virgin one-true object model. That way lies madness! Smalltalkers don't let other smalltalkers depend on leaky abstractions. That's a 'floater in the pool' level of smalltalk etiquette breech. Smalltalk (and moreso LISP) are the two uncredited unappreciated mother languages. That's why all those guys are so smug now. They really were right and really did have fully OO, functional, concurrent environments in the 70s. We'd solved how to do multicore back then. They were just ignored - "one CPU (thread) will be enough for everyone". Just design against the CPU mental model - ie.. assembler in drag. 'We've added the necessary explicit lock checks to make it threadsafe and parallelisable' is like 'The cheque is in the mail' but with less cheques. Fortran, Algol, Java, C, C++, Delphi - same pig, just differing amounts of squiggly bracket lipstick. For a look at something way cool, have a look at the Sun project for the Lively Kernel if you haven't already. That's a truly Smalltalk inspired approach to fixing the utterly broken Web 2.0 application model. And then some. I'll leave out the obscure 'Young Ones' in-joke. I probably already making a bad impression :-) TTFN, Paul. _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
