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The screenshots of IDA with Delphi in it really bring me back. Ahh reverse engineering, life was so simple then. Whoever wrote this was definitely older. Nobod

The screenshots of IDA with Delphi in it really bring me back. Ahh reverse engineering, life was so simple then. Whoever wrote this was definitely older. Nobody under 35 knows Delphi ;)

tazjin 13y ago
Delphi is the standard programming language taught to many German kids in school. I have many friends in Germany (I live in Sweden) and they have horrible stories from those "lessons" :-) Problem is not all of them are knowledgeable/interested enough to realise that what they're being taught is deprecated and not worth a lot.
- aelaguiz 13y ago
  It always shocks me how long technology hangs around. It's easy to forget how many critical systems are powered by VB3 or Cobol.
  - ErikAugust 13y ago
    It would be cool with in modern web development there were a tool that allowed you to design webpages as easily as you could design UI in VB3. Just saying.
    - thwarted 13y ago
      There have been a few attempts. The autogenerated code isn't/wasn't all that great. I periodically use something like Quickbase, which lets you focused on the data collection and processing aspect, rather than where widgets go on the screen (VB3's UI being the first thing you interact with and what everything is tied to leads to some less than ideal maintenance nightmares).
    - TimJYoung 13y ago
      Our product, Elevate Web Builder, provides this type of functionality: http://www.elevatesoft.com/products?category=ewb&type=web http://www.elevatesoft.com/products?category=ewb&type=web For example, coding a button event handler is just like it is in Visual Studio/Delphi - just double-click on the button in the form designer and you're in the code editor positioned inside of an empty event handler code block.
      - ErikAugust 13y ago
        Very cool.
- vidarh 13y ago
  > what they're being taught is deprecated and not worth a lot. It's only "not worth a lot" if the only thing they're being taught is the specifics of the language. If they're being taught to program, then that skill is trivially transferrable to other languages.

The screenshots of IDA with Delphi in it really bring me back. Ahh reverse engineering, life was so simple then. Whoever wrote this was definitely older. Nobody under 35 knows Delphi ;)

tazjin 13y ago

Delphi is the standard programming language taught to many German kids in school. I have many friends in Germany (I live in Sweden) and they have horrible stories from those "lessons" :-) Problem is not all of them are knowledgeable/interested enough to realise that what they're being taught is deprecated and not worth a lot.

aelaguiz 13y ago
It always shocks me how long technology hangs around. It's easy to forget how many critical systems are powered by VB3 or Cobol.
- ErikAugust 13y ago
  It would be cool with in modern web development there were a tool that allowed you to design webpages as easily as you could design UI in VB3. Just saying.
  - thwarted 13y ago
    There have been a few attempts. The autogenerated code isn't/wasn't all that great. I periodically use something like Quickbase, which lets you focused on the data collection and processing aspect, rather than where widgets go on the screen (VB3's UI being the first thing you interact with and what everything is tied to leads to some less than ideal maintenance nightmares).
  - TimJYoung 13y ago
    Our product, Elevate Web Builder, provides this type of functionality: http://www.elevatesoft.com/products?category=ewb&type=web http://www.elevatesoft.com/products?category=ewb&type=web For example, coding a button event handler is just like it is in Visual Studio/Delphi - just double-click on the button in the form designer and you're in the code editor positioned inside of an empty event handler code block.
    - ErikAugust 13y ago
      Very cool.
vidarh 13y ago
> what they're being taught is deprecated and not worth a lot. It's only "not worth a lot" if the only thing they're being taught is the specifics of the language. If they're being taught to program, then that skill is trivially transferrable to other languages.