On 2017-03-23 10:47, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:08:20 +0100 (CET)
Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org> wrote:
[...]
> When did FPC start to run on Linux? 1999?
I got the first "hello world" around 1995-1996, I think,
together with Mark May. (if memory serves well)
Well, Delphi didn't start with a "Hello World". So that would be a
little unfair as comparison.
What about the time when FPC was able to compile itself?
As a theoretical physicist I'm not sure why any of this time stuff is
even relevant if someone can simply go back in time and make fpc work
any time they want (or delphi). With time travel, or time messaging
technology someone could bring back fpc in it's full form whenever they
want.
I know for a fact, for example, that Calgary was never close to the
mountains and someone went back in time and put it there so you could
see the mountains from calgary.
I'm not sure why when something started is even relevant..
For all we know someone injected Lisp back in time too, and it never
actually existed until the 1990s and was reinjected back in time so that
to make people think it's an old language.
Basically as a theoretical physicist any discussions regarding the start
date of anything, is an absurd discussion
It's just a matter of who can actually do this time travel horse sh*t
and whether or not it's worth having, say, a copy of FreeBSD today, back
in 199x when a computer maybe only had a 66mhz processor and couldn't
take advantage of the features of freebsd that are available today (or
freepascal). But any idiot travelling back in time would simply bring
back the technology of the cpu/computer too, such as opening up a cpu
manufacturing company that is as advanced today, but bringing it back to
199x time period. Or just send a message back to some other fool in
199x and get him to do it for you, instead of travelling back yourself,
as messages are easier to send back in time than physical beings.
Do remember that time travel is a criminal act though.
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