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The only book from him that I read is Good Omens which he wrote together with Neil Gaiman whose books I've read all. As they both state in their respective epilogues they can't remember who wrote what as they were so involved with the story as a whole - so I have no way of telling what stems from Terry Pratchett. But it doesn't matter I guess - the book is nothing short of magnificiently grandiose so I probably should go and give Terry a try too 
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Oh, you should indeed!
Not for nothing was he "the most shoplifted author in Britain"! 
An excellent writer, storyteller, thought provoker.
His books are extremely readable, funny, and all-round worth reading. Ignore the earliest ones to start with - he hadn't really settled into his style yet - and read some of the Discworld books - "Guards, Guards" or "Thief of Time" are good.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You should definitely give a try to Sir Terry - his have a splendid way to make you think about serious things, while he delivers those 'light' but well written stories of his...
But probably you should start with stories from his 'middle-age', start with the Diskworld[^] stories...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I happen to have been reading "A Blink of the Screen" when I heard the sad news of his passing. This is a great collection of his earlier works starting when he was a child. All short stories but showing the fantastic talent that he was to become. Recommended if you like thought provoking and/or funny short stories. His "Diskworld" novels are simply brilliant!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Thanks to both of you for your suggestions! I'll definitely take a look at his Diskworld stories.
I would recommend Neil Gaiman to you in return, if you haven't read his books already. Especially American Gods and Stardust.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: the Discworld stories
FTFY. 
Also, the hamsters ate your link. It should be:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Going through a recently deceased friends stuff. In box that I opened labeled Borland, I found manuals and 3.5 "floppy" disks for C, C++ and objective C along with a receipt for $70 bucks from local vendor that he bought stuff from.
My estimation is it's worthless and I should just toss it into the stove. But you never now, it could be like great great aunt Jemima's fry pan from the 1800's and worth a few bucks.
No one selling it on the inter-webs so I assume no value?
Rage against the narrative.
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First, my condolences for your loss.
There is a site, www.emsps.com[^]*, that buys and sells second-hand software. You might try there.
Don't expect riches beyond the dreams of avarice...
*I have no connection to this website
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Great! Thanks. They are local, fired off an email. Appreciate it.
Rage against the narrative.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: There are also abandon-ware sites that accept and provide such stuff
While I doubt that Borland/Inprise/Embracadero will sue anyone for pirating Turbo C or Turbo C++, any company that must maintain legacy software would see that as an unacceptable risk. Hence, sites that buy and sell licenses to abandonware.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Turbo c++ that was the deal in the day!
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My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Eggbert Bartholomew Bligh wrote: a receipt for $70
That was a high price for an IDE, back in the day.
How much is VS now? It's not only C that's turned sharp.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: How much is VS now?
Free.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Free
You typoed "$4,249"
Oh, wait! It's gone up since I bought it!
I think they've kept the increase in line with inflation, though.
Now it's $13,200.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Visual Studio is overkill for most stuff I do, so I would never pay more than about $100. I think I also paid about $100 for Turbo Pascal 5 when I was in college.
Back in 2003 I bought "Visual C# .net Standard" (VS 2002 with C# only, similar to Express) for about $100 -- the only version I ever bought and I wouldn't pay more than that. I went to the roll-outs for VS 2005 and VS 2008 so I got those free. And I got 2010 (Pro) through DreamSpark.
At work I have VS 2012 Ultimate, but they have me using SSIS mostly.
For most programming I do, I have my own simple IDE, that does what I need with no extra bulk.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Visual Studio is overkill for most stuff I do
That's the biggest point. Mostly, what I need is a text editor with a few extras to allow easy compilation, project structuring, etc (and maybe a graphical form designer, now and then).
VS these days is like using a Google data centre to browse the net.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: easy compilation
Got that. F6 to compile and F5 to compile and run. Languages are configurable; I have C#, VB.net, and VC++.
Mark_Wallace wrote: project structuring
No. Like Turbo, it's "just freakin' compile the files* I have open right now, I don't want to have to define a 'Project', especially if it's a non-portable proprietary format".
* Tabbed interface.
Mark_Wallace wrote: graphical form designer
No. If I need that I use VS. I also use VS when I need a debugger (which is a crutch I was taught not to depend on). VS is also good for exploring an unfamiliar namespace.
Other features are:
Regex find and replace. (I might add history for those.)
Some formatting ability, but not much.
Support for wildcards and such on the command line to specify which files to open.
Plus the ability to specify a Regex on the command line to filter which files to open.
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Eggbert Bartholomew Bligh wrote: I found manuals and 3.5 "floppy" disks for C, C++ and objective C
I have a box of floppy disks that I was looking at a few weeks ago and realized that I haven't had a floppy disk on any of my machines in many years.
I don't even know where I would find one to be able to retrieve the data.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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I have both 5.25" and 3.5" drives, but I can only use one at a time.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I have both 5.25" and 3.5" drives, but I can only use one at a time.
I remember when machines came with 2 floppy drives, A and B, installed. That is the reason the default "hard drive" is the C drive.
Seems so long ago.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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My first PC had one dual 3.5" / 5.25" drive. Sweeeet!
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My 4th PC had a 3.5" and an 8.0" FDD.
Unfortunately, even after buggering around with the skew table, the 8.0" only held about a quarter of the data that the 3.5" disk would hold. Very disappointing at the time.
It was sweet having 5.25" and 3.5" as you could read, see and install anything.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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I have a bin of 3.5 drives, might bundle the Borland stuff with a 3.5 drive.
Thanks.
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