25 years of Delphi and no Oracle in sight: Not a Visual Basic killer but hard to kill
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On this day 25 years ago, Borland Software trotted out version 1.0 of the Delphi application development product, making the announcement at the Software Development '95 event in San Francisco.
I prophesize it will go places
Mind you, I haven't heard much from VB lately, maybe it did kill it?
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On this day 25 years ago, Borland Software trotted out version 1.0 of the Delphi application development product, making the announcement at the Software Development '95 event in San Francisco.
I prophesize it will go places
Mind you, I haven't heard much from VB lately, maybe it did kill it?
Kent Sharkey wrote:
Mind you, I haven't heard much from VB lately, maybe it did kill it?
Still in demand here, so no. After the name changed to Inprise, Delphi was killed; it was unfriendly for hobbyists, expensive, and not worth the money. There's not much Delphi around these days, and it's not because the language is bad - it is because their marketing is.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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On this day 25 years ago, Borland Software trotted out version 1.0 of the Delphi application development product, making the announcement at the Software Development '95 event in San Francisco.
I prophesize it will go places
Mind you, I haven't heard much from VB lately, maybe it did kill it?
Oh, I remember spending many happy hours staring at the car-dashboard installer for Delphi, as I moved from machine to machine. It was bloody boring, but I was happy to not have to use VB.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kent Sharkey wrote:
Mind you, I haven't heard much from VB lately, maybe it did kill it?
Still in demand here, so no. After the name changed to Inprise, Delphi was killed; it was unfriendly for hobbyists, expensive, and not worth the money. There's not much Delphi around these days, and it's not because the language is bad - it is because their marketing is.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
Eddy Vluggen wrote:
There's not much Delphi around these days, and it's not because the language is bad - it is because their marketing is.
The idiotic decision not to have a free version is the main reason for its demise. You'd think that people who owned a visual language based on Pascal (which itself became incredibly popular because it was free, and used in schools) would have got the hint about excluding hobbyists and students.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
There's not much Delphi around these days, and it's not because the language is bad - it is because their marketing is.
The idiotic decision not to have a free version is the main reason for its demise. You'd think that people who owned a visual language based on Pascal (which itself became incredibly popular because it was free, and used in schools) would have got the hint about excluding hobbyists and students.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark_Wallace wrote:
The idiotic decision not to have a free version is the main reason for its demise.
hence, "expensive"; I'd have paid 20 euro's, just not the price they were asking for a non-full version.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
The idiotic decision not to have a free version is the main reason for its demise.
hence, "expensive"; I'd have paid 20 euro's, just not the price they were asking for a non-full version.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
20 euros, 2,000 euros -- it's only a couple of decimal places ;P :laugh:
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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20 euros, 2,000 euros -- it's only a couple of decimal places ;P :laugh:
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I'd have placed the number, if it was in the right thread; but here, it is just an ad hominem on a mistake.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I'd have placed the number, if it was in the right thread; but here, it is just an ad hominem on a mistake.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
Eddy Vluggen wrote:
ad hominem
Leave that term for the trolls, who love it so much (or, at the very least, use it properly).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
ad hominem
Leave that term for the trolls, who love it so much (or, at the very least, use it properly).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
And yes, thank you for admitting you have no arguments.
No arguments about what? We weren't debating anything. Take a chill-pill, Kiddo.
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