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amazing that embarcadero and intel haven't come down on them for trademark violations. but perhaps it's so niche they don't care. and who on earth thought that
by zabzonk 4y ago
amazing that embarcadero and intel haven't come down on them for trademark violations. but perhaps it's so niche they don't care. and who on earth thought that "Turbo Rascal Syntax Error" was a good name?
- yellowapple 4y ago> and who on earth thought that "Turbo Rascal Syntax Error" was a good name? Well it's certainly memorable, and doesn't seem to have any collisions when searching for it on e.g. DuckDuckGo, so I'd say it's good enough as a name.
- rootw0rm 4y agoWorse yet, the full name appears to be: Turbo Rascal Syntax error, “;” expected but “BEGIN” I had a good laugh at least =)
- kej 4y agoI'm bothered by the missing closing quote around the full title.
- Tao3300 4y ago> DuckDuckGo A lousy name IMO
- yellowapple 4y agoWell it's certainly memorable, and doesn't seem to have any collisions when searching for it on e.g. DuckDuckGo, so I'd say it's good enough as a name.
- bombcar 4y agoIt’s DuckDuckGoose but limited to ten characters.
- eyelidlessness 4y agoSo it’s like only getting three seasons of Buffy?
- tyfon 4y agoTo me it seems like turbo pascal is no longer a valid trademark[1], or am I missing something? I like it at least. I used turbo pascal, turbo c/c++ and tasm quite a lot in my youth for this sort of stuff :) [1] https://trademarks.justia.com/736/24/turbo-73624203.html https://trademarks.justia.com/736/24/turbo-73624203.html
- zabzonk 4y agointeresting. typical of embarcadero. but trse does seem to have pirated the intel inside logo design.
- teraflop 4y agoI feel like I must be missing something. I read the submitted web page and watched the "promo" video, and didn't see anything that mentioned Intel or even remotely resembled the "Intel Inside" logo. Where are you seeing a connection?
- zabzonk 4y agohttps://retrogamecoders.com/introduction-to-trse-programming/ https://retrogamecoders.com/introduction-to-trse-programming...
- codezero 4y agoFrom what I can find the trademark for the logo with the arcs is abandoned/expired but the phrase “intel inside” is current. It doesn’t really matter anyways unless Intel wants to send a takedown notice so why do we care?
- pentaphobe 4y agoNot sure pastiche counts as piracy..
- phire 4y agoThat trademark is only for the term "Turbo pascal" on a printed reference manaual for a computer program. It probably wouldn't have applied here anyway, but maybe there are other (more generic) turbo pascal or even "turbo ProgrammingLanguage" trademarks?
- syntheweave 4y agoHaving encountered the project before, I immediately knew what "Turbo Rascal"/TRSE was, though I forgot what TRSE stood for. I consider it good quirky branding.
- eddieh 4y agoThe problem with the name is that I thought it was going to be something entirely different. The genius of the name is that I clicked the link. But I thought it was a debugging story about old software and that "Rascal" was a slight at Borland's expense or a typo. Either way, I like old software and I like debugging stories. To my surprise this is a very cool IDE for building software (games/demos) for 8/16-bit computers of yesteryear.
- cardanome 4y ago> who on earth thought that "Turbo Rascal Syntax Error" was a good name Me. I absolutely adore it. Cheeky humor, fun, old-school. Perfect for a retro programming project that helps you make 8/16 bit games.
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- Paul-Craft 4y agoHmm, yeah... Borland/Embarcadero isn't exactly selling Turbo Pascal, but it does come up as a live trademark registration: https://uspto.report/TM/73469354 https://uspto.report/TM/73469354 so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- benatkin 4y agoThey might have already changed the name. It's TRSE. Near the top they call it the "full original name". Sometimes "original name" means old name. Either way I think they're prepared to change it to TRSE if they need to.
- eyelidlessness 4y ago> who on earth thought that "Turbo Rascal Syntax Error" was a good name? raises hand it’s fun! I’m not even remotely its target audience but I very much appreciate the name.
- omoikane 4y ago"Turbo Rascal Syntax Error" is a great name, especially since it can be read in trochaic tetrameter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochaic_tetrameter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochaic_tetrameter https://xkcd.com/1412/ https://xkcd.com/1412/
- ogurechny 4y agoTRSI is a giant widely known demogroup. The similarity of abbreviations tells the initiated that the author is probably not alien to the demoscene. Links, target systems, and overall aesthetics of the project support that conclusion. https://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=280&order=release https://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=280&order=release https://demozoo.org/groups/69/ https://demozoo.org/groups/69/ Adding a random link to the mix: https://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=12155 https://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=12155
- rob74 4y agoActually the full name is “Turbo Rascal Syntax error, “;” expected but “BEGIN” - and I wonder if the unmatched quotation marks are another in-joke (but I doubt it, because strings in Pascal actually use single quotes). I would have used "begin expected but { found" instead (an error that someone used to C-like languages might encounter - OTOH, this isn't really realistic, because a Pascal parser would treat any "{...}" block as a comment).
- rzzzt 4y agoI fired up Turbo Pascal 7.0 and the compiler says 'Error 85: ";" expected.' if you continue your "program xyz" declaration with a newline and type "begin" without a semicolon in-between; I think this is the setup for triggering the error message. Does anyone know which version had the verbose form?
- badsectoracula 3y agoThe error is from Free Pascal, e.g. Error: Syntax error, ";" expected but "BEGIN" found. Delphi (at least Delphi 2 which i have here) has a similar error but without the "Syntax Error" part and uses single quotes, e.g. ';' expected but 'BEGIN' found.
- TurboHaskal 4y agoI love the name. What’s wrong with it?