Comments on: Top 12 things most developers believe in… http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/04/01/33656 David Intersimone (David I) CodeGear blog about programming, languages, history, and more. Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:18:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1 By: Eric http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/04/01/33656#comment-572 Eric Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:17:06 +0000 http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/04/01/33656#comment-572 David, in order to answer your question I tried it again this morning, screen printing each page so I could list the trail of URLs, and this time it seems to have worked. So I guess the problem is fixed, whatever it was, and I thank you for your help. -Eric <br> <br> David, in order to answer your question I tried it again this morning, screen printing each page so I could list the trail of URLs, and this time it seems to have worked. So I guess the problem is fixed, whatever it was, and I thank you for your help. -Eric

]]> By: Carl Herzog http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/04/01/33656#comment-589 Carl Herzog Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:32:15 +0000 http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/04/01/33656#comment-589 Wow, you are getting back to the spirit of developers (and the original spirit of Borland)... Nice posting. Wow, you are getting back to the spirit of developers (and the original spirit of Borland)… Nice posting.

]]> By: David Intersimone http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/04/01/33656#comment-588 David Intersimone Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:52:55 +0000 http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/04/01/33656#comment-588 > As of 08:25 EDT this morning (4 Apr), it appears to still be broken <br> <br>What URL are you going to for your Delphi for PHP Installation & Registration Help? <br> <br> > As of 08:25 EDT this morning (4 Apr), it appears to still be broken

What URL are you going to for your Delphi for PHP Installation & Registration Help?

]]> By: Eric http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/04/01/33656#comment-587 Eric Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:30:42 +0000 http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/04/01/33656#comment-587 Hi David. Thank you for the reply. As of 08:25 EDT this morning (4 Apr), it appears to still be broken. I have tried with both Firefox and IE. I do not see a phone number for I & R support, and I assume if I use regular support channels I will be charged, hence the unorthodox communication. Thanks for your help. -Eric <br> <br> Hi David. Thank you for the reply. As of 08:25 EDT this morning (4 Apr), it appears to still be broken. I have tried with both Firefox and IE. I do not see a phone number for I & R support, and I assume if I use regular support channels I will be charged, hence the unorthodox communication. Thanks for your help. -Eric

]]> By: David Intersimone http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/04/01/33656#comment-586 David Intersimone Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:11:11 +0000 http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/04/01/33656#comment-586 > Borland History Survey (trivia) <br> <br>Thanks Daniel. Good stuff. <br> <br>While there are a few inaccuracies and ambiguities in the questions and answers. For example: <br> <br>Turbo Pascal v1.0 was delivered on one floppy disk in the following sizes/OS(s): 8" CP/M, 5.25" CP/M, and 5.25" PCDOS/MSDOS. <br> <br>"very first IDE ever created" - you mean Turbo Pascal IDE right? <br> <br>"Which TP release was the first one to implement OOP?" - actually it was Turbo Pascal for the Macintosh (and not Turbo Pascal v5.5). > Borland History Survey (trivia)

Thanks Daniel. Good stuff.

While there are a few inaccuracies and ambiguities in the questions and answers. For example:

Turbo Pascal v1.0 was delivered on one floppy disk in the following sizes/OS(s): 8" CP/M, 5.25" CP/M, and 5.25" PCDOS/MSDOS.

"very first IDE ever created" - you mean Turbo Pascal IDE right?

"Which TP release was the first one to implement OOP?" - actually it was Turbo Pascal for the Macintosh (and not Turbo Pascal v5.5).

]]> By: Daniel http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/04/01/33656#comment-1062 Daniel Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:33:40 +0000 http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/04/01/33656#comment-1062 (apparently unrelated) survey: <br> <br>Q1. What operating system and size of diskettes tp1 came to this world? <br>A1. CP/M, 8.25'' <br> <br>Q2. What was the filename and extension of the very first IDE ever created? <br>A2. turbo.com <br> <br>Q3. Which TP release was the first one introducing uses/units? <br>A3. TP4 <br> <br>Q4. Which TP release was the first one to implement OOP? What was missing? <br>A4. TP5.5 (classes used to be named "objects") and what was missing was Turbo Vision (that is, no class hierarchy was shipped in the box) <br> <br>Q5. Which TP release was the coolest and best seller one? <br>A5. None. Actually, it was called BP7 (stands for Borland Pascal 7) and was able to create, DOS, DPMI & Windows apps with one code base! <br> <br>Q6. What happened with our TP pointers in delphi? <br>A6. Pointers stared to be self-derefenciated in D1 (in an attempt to make everything look more like VB) <br> <br>Q7. Who is Frank Borland? <br>A7. Cannot answer this question... Ask Him! :-) <br> <br>Q8. What kind of problems one had to fight with, while migrating from D1 to D2? <br>A8. Win32 API. <br> <br>Q9. BCB skipped a release, which one? <br>A9. There was never a BCB2. <br> <br>Q10. Which was the very first BCB release with code completion? <br>A10. 3 <br> <br>Q11. Which is the closest language to the soul of .NET framework? <br>A11. Borland Delphi.NET (and not C#!). Why? Because the framework itself is philosophically closer to VCL than to any other Microsoft abstraction (MFC, etc) <br> <br>Q12. Mr Kahn and Bill used to have a mutual agreement, not to hire each other employees. This agreement used to be renewed twice a year. Bill hired some Borlanders and Phillipe phone him and said "Bill, I thought we had an agreement". What was Bill's answer? <br>A12. Bill said "well, you better check, cause it just expired, yesterday"... :-) <br> <br>Q14. Which framework is the only one in the world allowing a super smooth migration from native (win32) to managed (.net) code? <br>A14. VCL! because one could not migrate MFC or VB6 code to .NET without rewriting it... <br> <br>Q15. Is Object Pascal / Delphi a case insensitive language? <br>A15. Yes and no. No, because there is only one exception (implemented that way because of BCB/C++ compatibility reasons). The exception is... the Register... APIs <br> <br>Q16. Which is the most flagrant omission in C#? <br>A16. the "whith" thingie... <br> <br>Q17. Which one has more source code to offer developers? MSDN or torry.ru? <br>A17. Torry.ru <br> <br>Q18. Was the first Turbo Pascal compiler written from scratch or inspired by other tools? <br>A18. Turbo Pascal 1 compiler was derived from Blue Label Pascal compiler for the Nascom-2 (written by Anders after a pascal interpreter, years before Borland was even registered as a software company) <br> <br>and the list goes on... <br> <br>good coding everyone! <br>d (apparently unrelated) survey:

Q1. What operating system and size of diskettes tp1 came to this world?

A1. CP/M, 8.25”

Q2. What was the filename and extension of the very first IDE ever created?

A2. turbo.com

Q3. Which TP release was the first one introducing uses/units?

A3. TP4

Q4. Which TP release was the first one to implement OOP? What was missing?

A4. TP5.5 (classes used to be named "objects") and what was missing was Turbo Vision (that is, no class hierarchy was shipped in the box)

Q5. Which TP release was the coolest and best seller one?

A5. None. Actually, it was called BP7 (stands for Borland Pascal 7) and was able to create, DOS, DPMI & Windows apps with one code base!

Q6. What happened with our TP pointers in delphi?

A6. Pointers stared to be self-derefenciated in D1 (in an attempt to make everything look more like VB)

Q7. Who is Frank Borland?

A7. Cannot answer this question… Ask Him! :-)

Q8. What kind of problems one had to fight with, while migrating from D1 to D2?

A8. Win32 API.

Q9. BCB skipped a release, which one?

A9. There was never a BCB2.

Q10. Which was the very first BCB release with code completion?

A10. 3

Q11. Which is the closest language to the soul of .NET framework?

A11. Borland Delphi.NET (and not C#!). Why? Because the framework itself is philosophically closer to VCL than to any other Microsoft abstraction (MFC, etc)

Q12. Mr Kahn and Bill used to have a mutual agreement, not to hire each other employees. This agreement used to be renewed twice a year. Bill hired some Borlanders and Phillipe phone him and said "Bill, I thought we had an agreement". What was Bill’s answer?

A12. Bill said "well, you better check, cause it just expired, yesterday"… :-)

Q14. Which framework is the only one in the world allowing a super smooth migration from native (win32) to managed (.net) code?

A14. VCL! because one could not migrate MFC or VB6 code to .NET without rewriting it…

Q15. Is Object Pascal / Delphi a case insensitive language?

A15. Yes and no. No, because there is only one exception (implemented that way because of BCB/C++ compatibility reasons). The exception is… the Register… APIs

Q16. Which is the most flagrant omission in C#?

A16. the "whith" thingie…

Q17. Which one has more source code to offer developers? MSDN or torry.ru?

A17. Torry.ru

Q18. Was the first Turbo Pascal compiler written from scratch or inspired by other tools?

A18. Turbo Pascal 1 compiler was derived from Blue Label Pascal compiler for the Nascom-2 (written by Anders after a pascal interpreter, years before Borland was even registered as a software company)

and the list goes on…

good coding everyone!

d

]]> By: David Intersimone http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/04/01/33656#comment-583 David Intersimone Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:20:26 +0000 http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/04/01/33656#comment-583 >Installation & Registration help for Delphi for PHP - Internal Server Error... <br> <br>There was an issue on Friday and Saturday regarding the product registration services. I am told this is now working again. Please retry. Thanks >Installation & Registration help for Delphi for PHP - Internal Server Error…

There was an issue on Friday and Saturday regarding the product registration services. I am told this is now working again. Please retry. Thanks

]]> By: Eric http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/04/01/33656#comment-581 Eric Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:04:23 +0000 http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/04/01/33656#comment-581 Hi David. I apologize for the off-topic post, but I have been trying to get Installation & Registration help for Delphi for PHP and the proper site for submitting these issues keeps giving me Internal Server Error. I hope someone there will be able to investigate. Thanks. <br> <br> <br> Hi David. I apologize for the off-topic post, but I have been trying to get Installation & Registration help for Delphi for PHP and the proper site for submitting these issues keeps giving me Internal Server Error. I hope someone there will be able to investigate. Thanks.

]]> By: Valera Kravtsov http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/04/01/33656#comment-1059 Valera Kravtsov Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:27:07 +0000 http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2007/04/01/33656#comment-1059 Hi, David! Nice First April's joke :))) Though I recognize myself in almost all of the points. Hi, David! Nice First April’s joke :))) Though I recognize myself in almost all of the points.

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