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601.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Sure, and I have a bridge to sell, to the same government.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Unless you're talking about Kylix, "Delphi 13 Community Edition brings the IDE forward from version 12.1 to the Florence release. Users gain access to new Delphi language features, and refreshed Android 15 and iOS 18 support.&quot
603.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Ouch!
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Exactly, because the amount of people on bench due to robots doesn't scale with the amount of customer opportunities. There are only so much customers to chose from and all of them have finite budgets. The exponential growth curve only
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Love how DHTML, ASP.NET Ajax, JSF Ajax kind of keeps being re-invented.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Because selling shovels is more profitable than digging holes themselves.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Because most companies aren't software driven, they sell physical products and software is a cost center. There is a budget and when it is gone, no contractors until next budget round.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Yes, when the project budget runs out and contractor team has to leave.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Apparently Markdown is much better.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Cross platform support exists but works by having Windows as the main development environment than then cross compiling into the varios platforms. Yes there is a community version for C++ Builder as well.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Nope, here you can still buy developers magazines. Entwickler, .NET, Java aktuelle, Maker, Retrogammer can still be found on newstands, what happens is that not all of them have all magazines available. You can get them delivered to your ad
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
I guess today is Pascal's day. This website is full of goodies for anyone that cares about history of Niklaus Wirth created languages.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Even its precursors, on MS-DOS (Turbo Vision), and first Windows attempt (Object Windows Library with TPW), were great productivity tools. Also I am the opinion Microsoft has never done nothing in C++, despite the Visual prefix, that could
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
The IDE experience, they are the ones driving the language evolution, FreePascal follows, and the industry that cares about Object Pascal, usually only cares because of Delphi. Don't get me wrong, FreePascal is great, but it hardly has
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
The irony is that now in 2026 we have COBOL's revenge with Markdown driven programming. Doesn't get more verbose than that.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Delphi.NET was a side project so to speak, and was mostly done under contract by RemObjects, which kept selling their compiler when Embarcadero decided to focus on native only. https://www.remobjects.com
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Also Ekon 2026 is already announced with the respective program, https://entwickler-konferenz.de/en/
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
In Germany, Delphi columns are still rather common on the .NET developers magazine.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Just yesterday I had a 19h to 01h train travel, with multiple RE connections, failed connections as well, due to "problems" on the tracks. I was supposed to arrive around 22h at my destination. I guess I should be happy I arrived
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
I always understood it like that, however maybe it is on me, when reading this with more detail.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
So basically LLVM catching up with times.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Thing is, will be anything left after we destroy the planet with war, data centers, rare earth minerals mines, nuclear and battery waste?
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
How have you found a SCO note, which never did nothing relevant for Java? Here from Oracle, as historically taken from Sun documentation for JDK 1.1. => Many-to-Many Model (Java on Solaris--Native Threads) https://docs.oracle.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Java already had M:N threads in the early days, aka green threads, because the JVM and Java specifications did not assert what kind of threading was to be provided. Thus most JVM implementations had a mix of red (1:1:) and green (M:N) threa
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Yeah, panic/defer/recover are so much better. /s
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Eventually we will all be writing COBOL and how English turns into machine code is irrelevant.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
NVidia is of another opinion. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/cutile-jl-brings-nvidia-cu...
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Python tooling from NVidia itself, which generate the same PTX as CUDA C++.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
True anonymous functions has nothing to do with indentation, ML derived languages are also indentation based. Guido doesn't want them in the language, as simple as that.
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by pjmlp 3mo ago
Like with array base indexes, there are plenty of languages that start with something other than zero, and many that use indentation, including a few well known in hacker circles, Python isn't alone.

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