Ahhh those were the times...

#borland #turbopascal #tp3 #retrocomputing

For so many years I’ve been wondering but never really knew what happened to Borland and Delphi.

I hated Pascal due to how discouraging our lyceum teacher was and how ancient TP felt in the early 2000s. Plus I learned QBasic at school and then logically moved on to Visual Basic 6.

Though I remember that indeed Delphi was better than VB in many ways, including not needing to provide a runtime.

https://youtu.be/Ubie5xxfdzE?si=lYYWW6imdzDys_ws

#delphi #programming #coding #history #visualbasic #microsoft #borland

公式・準公式の Delphi 関連書籍を読んでみる
https://qiita.com/ht_deko/items/8ceac34e07eca0732e9f?utm_campaign=popular_items&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=popular_items

#qiita #Delphi #Pascal #Borland #embarcadero #objectpascal

I just realized something.. I used to love learning new things, i could get engrossed in something because it was simple to learn and easy to use.

New "tech stack" doesn't seem to be like that anymore. It feels needlessly complex and invents a new 'standard' every time. It makes me angry and I hate learning, cause its no longer fun.

Learning #borland #TurboPascal #pascal was fun and easy in High School. Moving to #C and #Perl in university was great and easy enough as well. Not that I was any kind of competent in C, but I felt I learned enough that it set me up on a trajectory to learn the finer details and gotchas.

Things like #Python are annoying AF. Oh, your python program only works on 3.11 and not 3.12 or 3.13? That shouldn't be at all. From 2->3 sure I expect changes, 3->4, i would expect great changes as well. But not a minor change!

Dabbling in #Go was fine actually, it didn't anger me much, and #Rustlang / #rust I'm still doing rustlings so I can't say much there.

CLI tools are weird today too. Do they want to be a TUI, a true CLI tool or what?

The #Unix philosophy made learning new tools nice and easy, at least I think so. Do one thing, do it well, make it so your output can be used as the input to another program and great!

Things don't seem to follow that idea anymore.

Or am I just old and biased cause my brain lost its elasticity?? I don't want to think i'm so egocentric as to not rule that out.

#programming #OldManYellsAtClouds

A few years ago, #Rust people were all asking “are we #GUI yet?” https://areweguiyet.com/

In a peculiar twist of fate, Rust people have gone hog-wild on #TUI instead!

They've got full-blown TUI window systems now! Last time I saw that was the old TUI #Borland #IDE s in the early 1990s, and with the rise of graphical window systems, I thought I'd never see such a thing again.

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IBM 5150 и разработка под самый первый PC

Есть много интересных способов провести новогодние праздники, но поскольку я уже старенький — вместо классических алкогольного угара, ведра оливье и просмотра «Иронии судьбы» выбрал себе более редкое и необычное занятие.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/982954/

#5150 #pcdos #borland #си #эмуляторы #dosbox #pce #freebsd #8080

Modula-2, UCSD P-System, and the birth of Scala

I stumbled across this tidbit from Hacker News.

I never liked that #Borland stuffs. And used to program in #Pascal in #UCSD P-system (my alma mater). When I got to the US Department of Defense they wanted me for my #C and #COBOL skills and then they sent me to an Air Force School where I studied Modula-2 and Ada.

I did a lot of work in Modula-2, which doesn't exist anymore. Modula-3 does, but in the meantime Scala was in the works. #Ada is still actually a thing. We didn't want clever, like those one liner #Perl challenges that folks use to put in their signature lines to demonstrate how clever they thought they were through obfuscation.

Clever is bad. Clever opens up a whole universe of unexpected behavior and potential vulnerabilities. Maybe that's why #Rust became so organically popular - because it's safe by design and nowadays it's included in the Linux kernel more and more.

When you're designing software for missle guidance systems you most certainly do not want clever. The job is simple and ambiguity is potentially catastrophic in warfare.

Anyway, I really enjoyed this interview, I can identify with the #Timex_Sinclair - my dad bought me one and that membrane keyboard was horrendous, but I was persistent and eventually I was writing code in cutting edge languages on mainframes and #Vaxen.

Many of the stories about how one thing or another came about were through frustrations; like the impetus for #Linus the #Linux kernel coz #MINIX just didn't cut it, and who wants to trodge through snow drifts in #Helsinki to the computer lab when you can be warm and cozy, drinking beers in your dorm room?

This story is kinda like that too, which I can really appreciate, even though I've never played with #Scala.

I hope you enjoy it too.

https://www.artima.com/articles/the-origins-of-scala

#tallship #FOSS #Modula_2 #Modula_3

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Blast from the past! ❤️💕

Turbo #Pascal - a video series originally released on VHS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOtonwG3DXMLearn #Borland #retrocomputing🖥

Как Borland просрали все полимеры

Первая встреча с Turbo Pascal Начать стоит с самого начала, когда я впервые увидел Turbo Pascal 5.0. Тогда для меня это было что-то на грани чуда. Ведь как в те времена делалось "в норме": Читать далее...

https://habr.com/ru/articles/949956/

#delphi #c# #borland