Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #71
11 Jun
- Want to join our C++ Compiler team?
- If we had an "Unsung Hero of the Delphi Community" award to give out, it probably would have to go to John Moshakis. John’s latest? For example, he created a data provider for Blackfish so he can use it with BlogEngine.Net. Pretty cool.
- From the "Old School Blogger" Department: Jerry Pournelle of Chaos Manor fame wrote some interesting comments about Pascal. Here’s the old school part — you have to scroll down or search for the keyword "pascal" on the page — no direct link to the discussion. (Hat tip to The Pythia)
- I’ve yet to buy anything from them — I keep meaning to just for the fun of it — but I usually keep an eye on Woot. But this site — The Something Store — takes it even a step further. You basically pay $10 for something — you don’t know what, but you’ll get something for $10. Usually it isn’t much, but occasionally they send out stuff worth way more than ten bucks. Looks fun. I wonder whom I’ll buy from first — woot.com or thesomethingstore.com
Not sure I agree with Jerry’s assertion that Pascal compiles slower. Turbo Pascal has always had a reputation for its fast compiles (except for the bad borland days of late, which have improved and we hope will continue to improve back to the lightning fast days of yore) - still the structure does allow you do a sensible smaller compile instead of the inevitable build everything resulting from the code soup that is C, C++ etc.
I noticed that the Something store only shows the good stuff it ships. I would be interested to see that cheaper stuff they ship too - after all, an empty envelope is something too, as is 10 inches of dental floss… I’d kinda like to get a clue, and some times a 25 cent item can be pretty cool.
Mike -> Woot has always been very tounge in cheek about its posts. Apparently you don’t get the darker humour in that post.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:49 pmWander what Pascal Pournelle talks about… UCSD Pascal?
June 12th, 2008 at 12:58 amMany RS 2007 Architect users are switching over to VS since they find that Delphi can not produce one file for one class(due to circular reference ) in ECO unlike C# which produces one file per class since it does two passes.
June 12th, 2008 at 6:11 pmHope CG will give a thought to this i.e. speed or better management
About Jerry Pournelle comments: I see an opportunity for Delphi to be rather a competitor of ADA than C++.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:56 pmWhat’s going on Nick? You use to blog much more often pre-takeover
June 20th, 2008 at 12:41 pmI know that Random access memory (usually known by its acronym, RAM) is a type of computer data storage.
June 21st, 2008 at 10:30 amIt’s quite intresting. I was always intrested in programming.
July 10th, 2008 at 2:12 pm