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Type-safe C-killer Delphi turns 30

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨misk@sopuli.xyz⁩ to ⁨retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org⁩

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/02/19/delphi_turns_30/

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  • Deebster@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Turbo Pascal was my first real programming language, and Delphi was pretty pleasant to use for GUI programs as I recall.

    I’d never even heard of Lazarus, I might have to try it for a nostalgia trip.

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    • mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d never even heard of Lazarus, I might have to try it for a nostalgia trip.

      In case you want to look at a working Lazarus project, PeaZip uses it.

      peazip.github.io

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    • KamikazeRusher@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same! My comp Sci class in high school started us off with Turbo Pascal and Delphi. You wouldn’t get C/C++ and Java exposure until your second year. I haven’t ever considered going back and re-exploring it though. Perhaps I should locate my old floppy disks with the original assignments on them and review just how awful my code was just a little over a decade ago.

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  • a4ng3l@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fuck that shit and all the memories of it during my graduate. To some extent I dreaded this more than assembler and cobol.

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