Sometimes I miss the times where you had a compact development environment, wit one installer. Your source produced a mostly self contained binary in a reasonable size, you had nice debugging support and quick turnaround times for a compiled language even on a small development machines. And all that for attractive price for a perpetual license (Borland times).
Today it seems I have to give the producer my email address for the 'free' "Delphi History PDF".
Well, times have changed. :)
When I was a kid, my older brother worked for Borland. He got me 2 packs of stickers that said "Delphi developers do it better!!!" in red font and a yellow background.
Sometimes I miss the times where you had a compact development environment, wit one installer. Your source produced a mostly self contained binary in a reasonable size, you had nice debugging support and quick turnaround times for a compiled language even on a small development machines. And all that for attractive price for a perpetual license (Borland times).
Today it seems I have to give the producer my email address for the 'free' "Delphi History PDF". Well, times have changed. :)
When I was starting out as a kid learning to make applications, moving from VB6 to Delphi was such a huge improvement.
Tempted to use a client's plotter and roll of paper to print this off.
When I was a kid, my older brother worked for Borland. He got me 2 packs of stickers that said "Delphi developers do it better!!!" in red font and a yellow background.
Weird but FreePascal is fairly solid for its niche.
31 years old and it can't run on GNU/Linux. What a waste. The future of Delphi is darker than ever.