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To be fair, Delphi was pretty hard to get down to that kind of compactness because of dragging in the VCL as a baseline. You could technically program without
by geoelectric 12y ago
To be fair, Delphi was pretty hard to get down to that kind of compactness because of dragging in the VCL as a baseline.
You could technically program without it in standard event loop, but then the code would have been unfamiliar enough to other Delphi developers to perpetuate some of the same issues.
- pjmlp 12y agoWhy unfamiliar? It is how we coded in Turbo Pascal for Windows. Not everyone was using OWL all the time.
- geoelectric 12y agoDelphi picked up more people from VB and Powerbuilder than it did from TPW, I think. I got my professional start using Delphi, but never got the impression that many of my colleagues knew TPW well. Of the ones that didn't come from a database or 4GL background, most of us had used BCW for Windows coding and then switched back to Pascal when it became commercially viable to get a job in it. Borland Pascal didn't exactly have a ton of play in 1995. So it's true that they would've understood basic Petzold-style loops, but it would've been a bit surprising in Delphi. Later, most of the people I knew using Delphi didn't know bare Windows programming at all, since MFC had fully taken hold for people from that background. I was also under the impression that OWL was quite dominant, but I admit that I only passed through it briefly between Turbo Vision and VCL. Still, good point!