Re:They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pas...
by nurettin on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:03PM
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Similar experience here. I'd try to understand a concept in the help file, give up, try again the next year and suddenly it clicks. Maybe that's just how the human brain develops.
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Re:They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pas...
by enneff on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:25PM
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I really didn’t get it either until I saw how all the good programs were organised as struct types and groups of functions that operate on those structs. Then I was like “oh so OOP just makes that more convenient.” But I couldn’t have realised that until I understood the difference between a well-written program and a bad one. If only I’d had access to as much source code then as I do now!