dardeaup

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1. 31.▲
   by dardeaup 11mo ago

   Impressive work!
2. 32.▲
   by dardeaup 11mo ago

   Thanks!
3. 33.▲
   by dardeaup 11mo ago

   Thanks!
4. 34.▲
   by dardeaup 11mo ago

   Thanks! I'll look into that as an option.
5. 35.▲
   by dardeaup 11mo ago

   Nothing! I was asking from the point of you that you don't know what you don't know.
6. 36.▲
   by dardeaup 11mo ago

   This is a timely topic for me. I'm just beginning the writing of a technical book. I plan to target epub/mobi. My research thus far has pointed to markdown -> html -> epub/mobi. If you were going to write a technical eb
7. 37.▲
   by dardeaup 11mo ago

   Wow! TIL!
8. 38.▲
   by dardeaup 11mo ago

   Would you expect a WinAmp clone to comply with Apple's user interface guidelines?
9. 39.▲
   by dardeaup 11mo ago

   Yes, it would. It would be trivial to add errno as an instance variable for File_Handle class though.
10. 40.▲
    by dardeaup 11mo ago

    Missing reference to 2015/2016.
11. 41.▲
    by dardeaup 11mo ago

    What type of business was it? What kind of functionality did this TUI application provide?
12. 42.▲
    by dardeaup 11mo ago

    Yes! I was just pointing it out to show that they had at least thought of Japanese users (in some small way).
13. 43.▲
    by dardeaup 11mo ago

    Yes, I'm quite sure that's true in most cases. FWIW, dBASE IV version 1.5 does support Japanese for date format. It's one of the options for 'SET DATE' command.
14. 44.▲
    by dardeaup 11mo ago

    Location: Austin, TX Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ceph, Software-defined storage, C/C++, Python, Go, SQLite Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11B15ApyF8ybu7K8KHw6
15. 45.▲
    by dardeaup 11mo ago

    Curious as to whether there are any real-world use cases for doing this (other than curiosity) in DOS. If so, I'd love to hear about them.
16. 46.▲
    by dardeaup 11mo ago

    He's horribly blind to this. His arrogance and ego prevent him from doing the right thing.
17. 47.▲
    by dardeaup 11mo ago

    Same! Unreal that he keeps digging the whole deeper and deeper. Apparently, he doesn't know how to either keep his mouth shut or humble himself to admit a mistake and ask for forgiveness to those they burned by saying 'free foreve
18. 48.▲
    by dardeaup 1y ago

    Or while formatting a floppy disk!
19. 49.▲
    by dardeaup 1y ago

    "IBM who just didn't seem to know how to sell software like OS/2" Clearly, IBM was never that great at marketing much of anything IMO. However, many at the time also believed that in addition to not being that good at ma
20. 50.▲
    by dardeaup 1y ago

    In the OS/2 2.x days my primary means of interacting with other OS/2 folks was the Canopus (Wil Zachman) forum on Compuserve (75060,264 checking in). Weird that I still remember my Comuserve user id! At that time, there was a some
21. 51.▲
    by dardeaup 1y ago

    REXX was very powerful albeit a little quirky.
22. 52.▲
    by dardeaup 1y ago

    Yes, stability! It was very nice when doing DOS or Windows 3.x development. The only stability gotcha was when some OS/2 PM application hung the input queue and then the whole of PM became unresponsive. The base OS continued running fi
23. 53.▲
    by dardeaup 1y ago

    Yep! Or a plasma torch! Many locks fail quickly with just an angle grinder and a cut-off wheel. (as you can see on Storage Wars)
24. 54.▲
    by dardeaup 1y ago

    I'd like to hear more about the Oberon languages and compilers used.
25. 55.▲
    by dardeaup 1y ago

    Or he may just be tired of explaining his views over and over.
26. 56.▲
    by dardeaup 1y ago

    Granted, I never used Kylix, but it seems that it had all sorts of problems when it was first released. I don't remember, was Kylix available for Mac?
27. 57.▲
    by dardeaup 1y ago

    I'd bet you never seriously used Borland's Turbo Pascal for DOS versions 5.5 or 6.0. That IDE was extremely FAST. A lot of really good software was written in it back in the day (pre-internet).
28. 58.▲
    by dardeaup 1y ago

    Some do and some don't. Have you ever used any to develop an application? I suppose a lot of it is also relative. When I started with TUIs decades ago, we didn't have too many options. Turbo Pascal 5.5 or 6.0 was extremely nice to
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    by dardeaup 1y ago

    Delphi is still very impressive. However, they missed out on a much greater opportunity. Part of Delphi's crown jewels is VCL which can only be used on Windows. If you use Delphi for an OS other than Windows you have to use FireMonkey&
30. 60.▲
    by dardeaup 1y ago

    A few others not mentioned: DOS: FoxPro 2.x, dBASE III Plus, dBASE IV, Turbo Pascal 5.5/6.0 was probably the pinnacle for me OS/2: Watcom VX-REXX - extremely powerful and productive Windows: Delphi before .NET