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I loved Turbo Pascal, then Delphi. It was the most productive I've ever been as a programmer. I kept upgrading and was a very happy camper, right up to the poin
by mikewarot 2y ago
I loved Turbo Pascal, then Delphi. It was the most productive I've ever been as a programmer. I kept upgrading and was a very happy camper, right up to the point where they went insane with their pricing and I couldn't afford to keep going with it. Lazarus is pretty good at filling that gap, except for the horrid documentation.
The knife twist in the back was when Microsoft hired away Anders Hejlsberg and pushed him into the evil that is/was C#. The whole .NET thing was, and will always be, evil and bloat.
- IAmNotACellist 2y agoAs a childhood user of QB45, VB, and then VC++, the whole .NET branding to me was confusing and abysmally explained, and I swear my gut reaction when I see it is that I still don't understand it. At the time it felt like a completely out-of-touch attempt to get in on the dot com craze, and the name itself made no fucking sense.
- wruza 2y agoQB45 had that function-list feature (F2) that I wish all editors had since. It was so clean to see only the current function in “the buffer” rather than a scroll of them in a single file.
- int_19h 2y agoThe name had to do with web services, which were the Hot New Thing at the time, at least as far as "enterprise" development went. One of the things that were prominently featured in all .NET 1.0 promotional material is first-class support for SOAP.
- agumonkey 2y agowhen your 80s IDE fits in a 2020 favicon :)
- int_19h 2y agoWhat is "evil" about C#?
- zeroc8 2y agoThe bloat :)