They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7

Re:They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pas... by netsharc on Saturday August 24, 2024 @09:11AM (#41338039)

You mentioning Delphi reminds me of the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, a large model railroad with a day/night cycle, cars driving on the roads and planes "landing" and "taking off", a lot of it controlled with Delphi: https://www.embarcadero.com/case-study/miniatur-wunderland-c...

A video of their control center with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9SGsxauu7o

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Re:They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pas... by ghosty141 on Saturday August 24, 2024 @09:15AM (#41338077)

I dont even want to imagine how that codebase looks. The delphi code I‘ve come into contact with (not a delphi dev myself but worked close to them) tended to be quite bad by modern standards. The reason why was generally similar: not very experienced devs in the 90s needed to something with a UI off the ground.

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Re:They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pas... by mike_hearn on Sunday August 25, 2024 @04:13AM (#41345478)

More important was the lack of refactoring support, I think. The ordering and circulatory constraints on source choice also didn't help.

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