The purpose of this blog is to have a place to think aloud about my favorite tool – CodeGear’s Delphi – and my daily struggles with programming in general and Delphi in specific.
During my thinking aloud, I might (frequently?) digress into the more philosophical “if only” direction in the context of how Delphi works contra how I wish it would work. We all have our ideas about how things can be improved – although what one man see as a solution, another man might see as a problem.
Every and any comment is welcome, so please feel free to share your joys, insights, opinions or frustrations.
About Lars Fosdal
I did my first commercial work in Turbo Pascal 3.0 in the summer vacation of 1987.
After having used Compas Pascal and TP 2.0 and 3.0 as a student and hobbyist, I accepted the task of porting a Process control application for Timber Drying Kilns from USCD Pascal on a DEC Rainbow running CP/M-86 to TP 3.0 on a IBM PC running PC-DOS.
In the process, I had to learn how to control serial ports, needle printers and graphic cards. It was one hell of an education and I probably learned more about programming in those two months than in the other ten months at school that year…
I have been around the Turbo Pascal / Delphi community for a while, but usually more as a lurker than a contributor, unless I was doing what I do best… exposing my “ignorance”. In my book, nothing is so obvious that it cannot be questioned 🙂
I have always had the skill of asking stupid questions, and I am increasingly unafraid to use it!
Ah yes, I remember the DEC Rainbow. I spent the majority of a summer’s earnings for the privelege of pulling the floppy out of drive A: and flipping it over for drive B:. 😛
I’m sure using both sides of the media would be advertised as green computing today 🙂 It wasn’t a bad machine – technically it had several advantages over the IBM PCs. It just happened to be on a Darwinian sidetrack.