Story Category: History

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From Turbo Pascal to Delphi to C# to TypeScript, an interview with PL legend Anders Hejlsberg – YouTube

jpluimers jpluimers Nice historic perspective: [Wayback/Archive] From Turbo Pascal to Delphi to C# to TypeScript, an interview with PL legend Anders Hejlsberg – YouTube Via [Wayback/Archive] Zack Urlocker on Twitter: “Great interview with @ahejlsberg on the evolution of… … Read more 1 week ago in .NET, Borland Pascal, C++, Delphi, Development, History, JavaScript/ECMAScript, MS-DOS, pascal, Scripting, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, typescript, Windows Development 0

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Old programming books had cool little “puns” in their references, modern lack them in their indices. On the why, and history of them.

jpluimers jpluimers I wrote a two earlier blog posts around puns in programming book indices before: the 1992 Turbo Pascal 7.0 Language Guide having both entry in the manual about Recursion (“recursive loop, see recursive loop”) which… … Read more 4 months ago in .NET, 1, 7, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Delphi 1, Delphi 2, Development, ekon, Event, History, LaTeX, LifeHacker, Mathematics, pascal, Perl, PL/I (a.k.a. PL/1), Power User, science, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, Typesetting 0

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In memory of Matthias Eißing (Embarcadero, formerly Borland/Inprise/Borland/CodeGear)

jpluimers jpluimers Earlier today, I got the sad news that my friend Matthias Eißing suddenly passed away in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. Valentines day will never be the same. Rest in Peace dear Matthias Eißing…. … Read more 1 year ago in About, borland, Delphi, Development, History, Personal, Software Development 0

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Delphi’s 29th Anniversary Webinar Replay And Slides

Ian Barker Ian Barker Well, that was a lot of fun! We just had an amazing “not your usual webinar” event where we celebrated the anniversary of 29 years since the release of Delphi. We covered all the sorts… … Read more 1 year ago in about delphi, Delphi, GDK, History, History Of Delphi, object pascal, programming, RAD Studio, Spirit of Delphi, Turbo Pascal, Webinar, webinars 0

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Memories of the Twitter Fail Whale that got discontinued 10 years ago (HT @YiyingLu, @failwhale).

jpluimers jpluimers From 2008 to fall 2013, Twitter used the Fail Whale, a 2006 artwork by Yiying Lu originally titled “Lifting A Dreamer”, to indicate problems on their site. Now that it is about a year after… … Read more 1 year ago in Delphi, Development, History, SocialMedia, Software Development, twitter 0

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What Kind Of Programming Language Is C?

Yılmaz Yörü Yılmaz Yörü The C programming language is one of the most popular programming languages in use today. Over the years C has been joined by many new programming languages that introduced lots of new features such as… … Read more 3 years ago in C Development, C Language, C++, C++ Code, C++ Programming, compiled, History, IDE, interpreted, non-interpreted, programming, programming language, RAD Studio 0

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Welcome to the future of software development, again

Ian Barker Ian Barker I have some good news for you, the future of software development has arrived! Well, to be precise, the next possible big thing in the future of software development is here… again. Works anywhere, just… … Read more 4 years ago in COBOL, Delphi, delphi26, Electron, History, low code, Low Code Wizard, News, object pascal, programming, RAD Studio 0

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Delphi: some notes on HModule while tracking down an access violation in TRegGroups.UnregisterModuleClasses

jpluimers jpluimers Too bad the whole mechanism involving TRegGroups.UnregisterModuleClasses is not documented anywhere It is the underlying storage to support TClassFinder, which was introduced in Delphi 6, documented on-line in Delphi 2007, documented slightly in Delphi 2009,… … Read more 4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, History, Software Development 0

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I wanted to know the loaded DLLs in a process like Process Explorer shows, but from the console: Sysinternals ListDLLs to the rescue

jpluimers jpluimers In Windows, historically most people approach investigation GUI first. Having turned 50 a while ago, I am no exception. My real roots however are on the command-line and scripting: roughly 1980s Apple DOS, CP/M, SunOS… … Read more 4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, History, Software Development, Windows Development 0

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Much Turbo Pascal history (via What is a Delphi DCU file? – Stack Overflow)

jpluimers jpluimers Editing [WayBack] What is a Delphi DCU file? – Stack Overflow for more historic correctness and adding links prompted me to archive some older material and search for some more, basically because while historically very… … Read more 4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, CP/M, Delphi, Development, Event, History, MS-DOS, pascal, Power User, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, UCSD Pascal, Z80 0

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#Delphi26th: Magnificient Multipurpose Windows Launcher Executor: Powered By Delphi

Celebrating Delphi's 26th Anniversary Celebrating Delphi's 26th Anniversary Executor is a multi purpose software tool to help you ease your daily computer workflow and it is developed in Delphi. According to the developer, you can launch programs, manage… The post #Delphi26th: Magnificient Multipurpose… … Read more 4 years ago in Delphi, delphi26, History, hotkey, launch, launcher, object pascal, programming, shellexecute, Showcase, utility, windows, workflow 0

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Delphi XE7 introduced const support for dynamic arrays; prior versions used [] only for sets.

jpluimers jpluimers A few things to learn from [WayBack] delphi – Constant array of cardinal produces error ‘Constant expression violates subrange bounds” – Stack Overflow: Delphi XE7 introduced compiler support for const dynamic arrays. Compiler errors can completely… … Read more 4 years ago in Delphi, Development, History, Software Development, Undocumented Delphi 0