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A comment on Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins.
Simply, we had a junior guy doing some work, and he wrote a Client/Server GUI using Delphi talking to SQL Server (I think, not germane).
Anyway, it was all done, shipped off the client, everyone essentially happy.
I asked him how the project went.
Paraphrasing he said, "The project went really well, I didn't have many problems. But I do have one question."
"What is it?"
"Can you explain the difference between Disk and RAM?"
"..."
A testament to Delphi is that someone can be productive in computer programming without understanding something fundamental like RAM and Disk.
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Simply, we had a junior guy doing some work, and he wrote a Client/Server GUI using Delphi talking to SQL Server (I think, not germane).
Anyway, it was all done, shipped off the client, everyone essentially happy.
I asked him how the project went.
Paraphrasing he said, "The project went really well, I didn't have many problems. But I do have one question."
"What is it?"
"Can you explain the difference between Disk and RAM?"
"..."
A testament to Delphi is that someone can be productive in computer programming without understanding something fundamental like RAM and Disk.