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You mentioning Delphi reminds me of the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, a large model railroad with a day/night cycle, cars driving on the roads and planes "lan
by netsharc 2y ago
You mentioning Delphi reminds me of the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, a large model railroad with a day/night cycle, cars driving on the roads and planes "landing" and "taking off", a lot of it controlled with Delphi: https://www.embarcadero.com/case-study/miniatur-wunderland-case-study https://www.embarcadero.com/case-study/miniatur-wunderland-c...
A video of their control center with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9SGsxauu7o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9SGsxauu7o
- ghosty141 2y agoI dont even want to imagine how that codebase looks. The delphi code I‘ve come into contact with (not a delphi dev myself but worked close to them) tended to be quite bad by modern standards. The reason why was generally similar: not very experienced devs in the 90s needed to something with a UI off the ground.
- mike_hearn 2y agoMore important was the lack of refactoring support, I think. The ordering and circulatory constraints on source choice also didn't help.