Archive for July, 2004

Naming Generic Params

There’s been a bit of a firefight going on within Microsoft about what naming conventions to use for the type params of generic types.  The debate has spilled out into the streets with this post to the Microsoft Product Feedback Center.  Some of the suggestions made in that public discussion are well intended, but C#-centric […]

Posted by Danny Thorpe archive on July 24th, 2004 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

The Pure and The Practical

In checking the incoming references to this blog over at Blogshares I noticed a new link from beyond the usual rat pack -  a link from deep in PHP space.  Curious, I followed, and found a circle of satire concerning a reflection on the 1974 book Pascal User Manual and Report by Jensen and Wirth made over at Lambda […]

Posted by Danny Thorpe archive on July 20th, 2004 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

CrossKylix Plugin for Delphi IDE

Simon Kissel, maker of ChatJet of Borland chatroom fame, has been tinkering again. This time he’s cooked up a way to run the Borland Kylix command line compiler from within the Delphi (6 or 7) IDE on Windows - dubbed "CrossKylix". Pretty neat trick, considering that the Kylix command line compiler is a […]

Posted by Danny Thorpe archive on July 2nd, 2004 under Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

Mono 1.0 Released

Congratulations to the Mono team on their release of the Mono 1.0 platform! It’s taken a mountain of effort by a team of dedicated developers, but they’ve succeeded at what many said was impossible: to produce an implementation of the .NET platform independent of Microsoft.
Why is this noted in the Delphi compiler blog? […]

Posted by Danny Thorpe archive on July 2nd, 2004 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

Borland Joins ECMA Standards Body

I’m pleased to announce that Borland has been elected into ECMA International!
ECMA is the standards body guiding the specification and standardization of items such as the C# language, the .NET Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), and Managed C++ extensions for CLI.
Borland has been participating in ECMA technical committees as a guest for several months […]

Posted by Danny Thorpe archive on July 1st, 2004 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

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