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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by marcosdumay on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @10:36AM (#13652682)
> so I learned as much English as I could so I could understand that manual.

:)

I started learning English as a kid to understand what was happening on the MS BASIC programs I could get on my computer by the time.

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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by mseebach on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @10:45AM (#13652759)
I remember the penny dropping when I learned what "if" meant in English (I already knew what it did in BASIC).
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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by wirrbel on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @04:10PM (#13655374)
Same here
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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by irfanka on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @01:06PM (#13653990)
Same thing here! I never would've learned English if it wasn't for GW BASIC and Windows 98 - certainly not in the crappy schools of the post-war Bosnia!
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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by GFischer on Thursday February 16, 2017 @12:21PM (#13661707)
I also got started on GW-BASIC (on DOS 3.3).

Twenty years later, I'm still writing way too much Basic code (VB6 legacy apps and some VB.NET). I do appreciate a lot of things about the syntax and wish C# had picked them (no semicolons and no case sensitivity).

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