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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
modified 14-Feb-24 21:40pm.
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Not in the Lounge, please.
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I know it's improper/odd behavior but that makes me think what was that? Probably more interested than I should be...
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You are one of those that would look through the hole at the wall that says "Do not look in here"... aren't you?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Not holes in walls, I take 'no user serviceable parts' as a challange though! 
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Map: Here there be dragons.
Me: Ooohhh, dragons!
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You Know it! 
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From CP newsletter
The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases β’ The Register[^]
Rambling article covering several things. (It really rambles.) Towards the top is the following statement.
"Pascal became Turbo Pascal which became Borland Delphi and drove the success of Microsoft Windows 3. Delphi was, for a while, huge. But Wirth ignored all that ..."
All I can say is that I have never see such a claim before nor does it jive with what I experienced.
Window 3 was driven by C and Basic. And probably quite a bit of assembler.
Pascal did not become Turbo Pascal. Turbo Pascal was just a product from one company. I note that the Tiobe index now lists Delphi and Pascal together but Delphi is a product and Pascal still remains a programming language distinct from that, because compilers still exist.
Delphi was released for Windows 3.1 (not 3) and wasn't anything but a niche language at the time. And continued as a niche language. Is also still exists.
It does seem that perhaps Pascal itself is a dead/abandoned language in that the last standard was released in the early 90s. That would suggest it is not really an active language anymore. While Delphi has had recent releases. Quick look suggested there is no standard for Delphi. For myself that tends to indicate it is more just a product (which at a minimum means it is only relevant to the adoption of that specific product.)
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Then after a lot of rambling the author gets to this bit.
"There is an urgent need for smaller, simpler software."
Err..no.
Complexity doesn't mean easy but simple doesn't deliver what complexity does.
Based on that argument then the Las Vegas Sphere should be torn down and replaced with shadow puppets backed by a fire created by rubbing sticks together. Certainly less complex. Absolutely not as much fun and that measured by many different criteria.
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I agree.
On point one, I'd say the "became" is used to mean "begat" or "led to".
On point two, I'd day that maybe a lot of people don't realize that software is like an ogre...
I mean software is like an iceberg, and they look only at the part they can see. This is fine in many cases, but they completely ignore the huge part which they can't see and treat it like it doesn't even exist at all. That only the little bit of code you actually write matters, and that any library, runtime, framework, or VM it sits atop is of no consequence. A particular application requires some amount of code, whatever you don't write yourself has to already exist beneath the surface.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: software is like an iceberg, and they look only at the part they can see.
Well said! Maybe that's why it is so common for many Johnny-come-lately to decide to re-implement something thinking it's going to be so much cleaner and nicer, only to discover that they need about the same amount of code and a lot of effort has been wasted for naught.
Mircea
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Delphi was one of many choices (including PC COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/I, Assembler, C). VB dominated because it was MS, and corporations bought PC's with MS operating systems. Delphi was the Beta to VB's VHS.
People who wanted native exe's (and performance), and didn't program in FoxPro, Paradox, Clipper, dBase, etc. used Delphi until finally forced to use (MS) C++ (and the horrors of MFC) to stay in (corporate) business ("JET" engine, ADO, record sets, SQL Server, etc.).
Delphi was (Windows) RAD when RAD was just a word. The overall impact is hard to quantify. I certainly thought it was better than anything out there at the time.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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And Delphi (C++ Builder in my case) is still unique when it comes to 'visual inheritance' of TForm but also for inheritance TDataModule.
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C# was the first programming language for vacuum tube computers and eventually evolved into Fortran, now the defacto language for all server and web development.
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Marc Clifton wrote: vacuum tube computers
During the Hoover administration?
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1960's, was my first.
me: "I'm here to fix the computer"
cust: "I think it is one of those little light bulbs, that's what it was the last time".
>64
Itβs weird being the same age as old people.
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Hi Marc, maybe you have that reversed.
The first successful compile of a Fortan program was in 1958 (see link below). The first successful compile of C# was in 1988 (see link below)
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C Sharp (programming language) - Wikipedia[^]
I seem to remember Algol and Assembler being prevalent during the vacuum tube era.
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#include <humour.h>
It was a joke!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Thank you for share with us.
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Oh (sounds of objects whistling over head).
Me gotta go sharpen stone axe now.
Someone left big black monolith blocking cave entrance.
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I hope it was a joke as the provided link contradicts β1988β in the first paragraph.
Quote: The C# programming language was designed by Anders Hejlsberg from Microsoft in 2000 and was later approved as an international standard by Ecma (ECMA-334) in 2002
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