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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by perfunctory on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:18AM (#22118218)
> and is now trying to apply the ancient tools they were taught somewhere around the time when some fish decided to walk on land because its all they know.

A little bit too harsh. As the article points out Delphi is currently #12 on the TIOBE Index [0]. Above Go for example.

[0] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by vintagedave on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:20AM (#22118234)
Absolutely too harsh. Remember Pascal was designed to be a learning and teaching language - this purpose is what it was made for.

And Delphi itself was a standout leader in technology, a huge inspiration for C#, and still a key technology used by many people today. It's just not well known. Not well known != ancient.

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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by kdtop on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:30AM (#22118332)
As I recall, c# was developed by one of the primary designers of object pascal, Anders Jejlsberg, after being poached away by Microsoft. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg)
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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by sequence7 on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @11:07AM (#22118711)
Yes and Anders Hejlsberg was also the chief architect of Delphi.
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