Re:Rust: Not So Great For Codec Implementing
by pjmlp on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @05:13AM
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I followed some of your blog entries, hence my earlier comment. :)
The first time I went through the Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5 manual I wasn't that happy to see PChar, let alone the other variants that came later.
Although it seems that in today's world, most languages end up with a jungle of string types, for every possible variation of Unicode, ANSI and C ABIs.
I eventually did the full transition from Object Pascal to C++, so I only used the very first versions of Delphi.
So in what concerned Windows development, I ended up moving from Borland to Microsoft compilers when Visual C++ 6.0 was released, which means I lack the experience how later Delphi versions evolved.
The first time I went through the Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5 manual I wasn't that happy to see PChar, let alone the other variants that came later.
Although it seems that in today's world, most languages end up with a jungle of string types, for every possible variation of Unicode, ANSI and C ABIs.
I eventually did the full transition from Object Pascal to C++, so I only used the very first versions of Delphi.
So in what concerned Windows development, I ended up moving from Borland to Microsoft compilers when Visual C++ 6.0 was released, which means I lack the experience how later Delphi versions evolved.