Paul > I'd venture the > more interesting question is more what _kind_ of impression that tends > to be :-) > Hopefully its changed over the years thou friends tell me I'm appear arrogant..never! > Interesting. I wonder if it was Morphic? It may well have been the > inspiration. > As he told me they bought a ST implementation for Windows which had this 00 lib for windows controls which they translated into Delphi
> 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. > Having said that the ST I used was slow, and noone has ever resolved the multiple inheritance conflict dilemma > Fortran, Algol, Java, C, C++, Delphi - same pig, just differing amounts > of squiggly bracket lipstick. > What is it with everyone putting lipstick on animals? > 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. > Cheers I'll have a look, I'm pretty much deep in PHP now, Wrote my own Object Persistence Framework (With Ajax as the comms between property editors and the server), still a WIP and I made a fundemental error in it, I should have started with my original intention which was "all properties are objects", but i wimped and returned property references as data (strings), my excuse is that PHP5 was so new I missed the significance of the __toString magic method have a play with www.ejif.co.nz, user experiance feedback appreciated > I'll leave out the obscure 'Young Ones' in-joke. I probably already > making a bad impression :-) > Never Neven _______________________________________________ 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
