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> A while later the same mag gave away a copy of Delphi. Funny you mention that, was it PC Pro? I bought the same magazine a long time ago, I remember the CD.
by HeckFeck 5y ago
> A while later the same mag gave away a copy of Delphi.
Funny you mention that, was it PC Pro? I bought the same magazine a long time ago, I remember the CD. I really wanted to make windows appear and things happen on screen. But I unfortunately couldn't figure out the programming. It only came to me much later and long after Delphi (and winforms) had fallen.
- s_severus 5y agoEither PC Pro or PC Plus! Hard to remember exactly all these year later. I wrote more about how it fit into my journey as a dev in this essay: https://www.michaelbromley.co.uk/blog/confessions-of-an-intermediate-programmer/#the-fuck-generator https://www.michaelbromley.co.uk/blog/confessions-of-an-inte...
- HeckFeck 5y agoJust finished giving it a read, thanks for sharing. Maybe some day I'll have done enough interesting things with programming to write a similar tale.
- CRConrad 5y agoPC Plus, I'd guess. They had a long-standing series of columns by Huw Collingbourne on developing with it. Another quirky memory of 1990s Brithish PC magazines: PC Shopper had a column by then-pharmacist-turned-computer-guy, now not wholly-unknown SF author Charlie Stross.