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I recently had to debug an open source delphi application, it was awful. The IDE is dated, the errors arcane, and I had someone from "greymatter" leave me a voi

by maaark 9y ago

I recently had to debug an open source delphi application, it was awful. The IDE is dated, the errors arcane, and I had someone from "greymatter" leave me a voicemail after I started a free trial of the IDE. Also, curly braces as block comments actually offend me.

vintagedave 9y ago
Curly braces offend? There are other language families than C-descended, you know :D Delphi goes for /reading/ code. My experience - and anecdotally, reading comments others say - is that it is a literate, readable, clear language. One of the biggest problems with long-term coding and big projects is "write-only code", and the language can help.