On 2010-07-01 09:23, Marco van de Voort wrote:
There is a difference between hope and dreaming. Be careful that you don't get hung up in
some scenario where you "wait" for people to come, or wait till the hordes come
and help out in the purest open source spirit.
Somehow that never happens.
We're both saying pretty much the same thing, I think: Don't count your
chickens before they hatch. And, I am not.
It's just that unpredictabilty works both ways --cue in a quote by E. E.
Cummings: "You shake and shake and shake the bottle, first nothing comes
and then the lottle".
It took us a few million years to the first prototype of telephone, and
more than a century till it became portable/mobile; and then, less than
20 years to be ubiquitous enough that world regions can now simply
bypass POTS altogether in favor of GSM. Things like these make me an
optimist.
Now, will someone please hurry up about that flying car I've been
waiting for all this time ;)
Borland had a commercial C++ compiler, commercial Pascal compilers, knowledge
in the company, and they didn't. I think they suspected that something fully
automated would never be possible, and keeping it lowtech and transparents
makes it doable for more users.
I don't know.
Borland, somehow, managed to lose direction, leadership and most of the
talent along with it a long time ago.
It turned into a bureaucratic geriatric wardful of clockers.
With all the knowledge about compilers --supposedly in the company--
they are yet to come up with a 64 compiler, let alone a cross-platform
RAD after all these years.
Heck, they have managed to misplace the help system so badly that no one
has been able to locate any sign of it for years.
Having seen all these and more, I am not at all sure they went for
anything more than the absolute minimum they could do about
multi-(dual-)language compiler.
Cheers,
Adem
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