I still love Pascal and have, mainly as a spiritual exercise, maintained my subscription to Delphi through the various cruel aeons of its history, particularly since Anders Hejlsberg bailed Borland for the Dark Side.
RAD Studio XE2 is quite nice... I really like the additions to the Delphi language that Embarcadero has introduced since Delphi 2009, and FireMonkey is an interesting new direction for them, allowing for native compiling of beautiful 3D and 2D applications on both Windows & Mac. And so, every now and again, I fart in the general direction of the nanny runtimes and build native software for my own amusement (and an occasional quick buck) using Object Pascal. FireMonkey has even tempted me to revive my old Muse project -- an attempt to take the idea behind FoxPro to the cloud. But everybody's doing that already and I find natural language processing and data visualization much more interesting and personally gratifying. I could never figure out how Visual Basic beat it, or how C++ survived its advent, but then, we all know well that the best technology doesn't always win in the Big Game. The god of this world much prefers a fantastic farce to the real deal. And so it goes. - Publius On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:55 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/1/2011 12:58 PM, Dave Crozier wrote: >> It's 25 years ago last week since Turbo Pascal 3 was released. I remember >> getting my copy along with Sidekick and writing code faster than I had ever >> done in the past. I wrote man, many applications that lasted nearly 15 >> years.... >> >> I remember the speed of the compiler and the fact that all the IDE sat in a >> footprint of less than 40K. Geez, you get thumbnail images bigger than that >> these days! >> >> I've still got the original disks along with a copy of Borland Eiffel that >> was a free gift with TP3 along with the well thumbed manual. >> >> Happy Days. > > > I *LOVED* Turbo Pascal!! Loved writing the code. Wrote a program one > time that was so huge, it wouldn't compile any more as-is. I then > learned about "units" and had to refactor my code into units. That's > back when Computer Science was FUN to me. Admittedly, I haven't had fun > in a lot of years. I just see a lot of change for change's sake and not > a really good reason for it. It's frustrating as a developer. I saw so > many "trends" that were more HYPE and fads more than anything, and sure > enough, the time showed that to be true. Now this will sound like a > dinosaur statement, but I can say there have been many times where I > said "boy, I'm glad I didn't waste time going that route." > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAEUt0LBz-RQs=aelv54p3tjjxdtrz2hwfc3-xr2gc+mwttd...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
