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You mean instead of C#? Their pushing F# a bit now
F# is a great project and we have a passionate community behind it, certainly a good thing to try if you're into functional programming
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Absolutely! Can I ask if you are taking these nodes the old fashioned way with pen and paper or are you using a program to do this? I myself have found out that during meetings I prefer to use a pen and paper but it is mostly just notes that I take for myself.
It varies. I'm often tinkering, which is a problem, I know. I've used a notebook, a Surface pen and One Note, a text file, scribbles on the agenda for the meeting (if there was one). It depends if it's a teleconference or not, whether my laptop battery is charged, if I can find a nice pencil, etc. etc. as well. The summaries always go out as emails, of course, and if I paper note-take, I try to take a picture and upl…
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Delphi/Pascal ran the call center telephony system at a company I worked at, and it ran it well. It was very performant and stable, and ran things for around 14 years. Spent a while writing and modifying Delphi apps there, I really enjoyed it. I'm actually surprised it isn't used more today, it was definitely "rapid development" at the time. One thing it was great for was making small, dependency free executables. Si…
> I'm actually surprised it isn't used more today, I'm not at all. Embarcadero has made Delphi a language that is out of reach of the beginner as their Delphi has been rediculously priced. Until recently they didn't have a free Delphi entry level product, it was $199 and was crippled. Now they at least have a free version but the cost has prevented me several times from actually learning Delphi. Now there is FreePasc…
Where I live, piracy is casual. People get software for free, and they stopped using Delphi because of Embarcadero. When people don't even deign to pirate your software, something's off.
I think there are many who are still on Delphi 6 which is what I used when I was younger. It was simple, effective, tight. Then that Embarcadero thing came out.
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> I'm actually surprised it isn't used more today, I'm not at all. Embarcadero has made Delphi a language that is out of reach of the beginner as their Delphi has been rediculously priced. Until recently they didn't have a free Delphi entry level product, it was $199 and was crippled. Now they at least have a free version but the cost has prevented me several times from actually learning Delphi. Now there is FreePasc…
> I'm not at all. Embarcadero has made Delphi a language that is out of reach of the beginner as their Delphi has been rediculously priced. Where I live, piracy is casual. People get software for free, and they stopped using Delphi because of Embarcadero. When people don't even deign to pirate your software, something's off. I think there are many who are still on Delphi 6 which is what I used when I was younger. It…
Progress Openedge. I have never seen anyone on HN mentions it. The codebase is from the 90'. before that, I have worked with a codebase from the 80s, 10 years older than me.
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Sometimes I fantasise about what would've happened if MS had decided, by some fluke, to push, say, OCaml as their big .Net initiative. Can you imagine MS Visual OCaml#? OCaml for Windows app development ... that would've turned some heads.
You mean instead of C#? Their pushing F# a bit now
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Ditto. Its my favourite language. You can do all things with it.
The language itself is very, very, very nice, don't get me wrong. But the standard library is very small (deliberately), and while LuaRocks is fun, Perl, Ruby, and Python have a lot more libraries available. Plus, concurrency in Lua is ... nontrivial I loved concurrentlua, an attempt to implement Erlang-style message passing in Lua, with coroutines instead of processes. But it was kind of a pain to get it to work, an…
Taking a deep look into Lazarus/FreePascal/Object Pascal this year (because I can still code Pascal & VCL code in sleep nowadays). Want to see if it's good enough to develop a simple macOS, Linux and Windows application at the same time.
I had to develop a simple GUI application for extracting a few hundred GBs of image data from a complicated folder structure created by an automated microscope. It had to run great on windows and mac os (and linux of course won't hurt, just in case, as it has some desktop use in academia).
I developed the tool in linux (xubuntu), and:
- Compiled it without change on windows (Just press that green button).
- Compiled it with one single change on Mac OS X (some cthreads library import missing).
I finished the project from design to final approved product, INCLUDING learning the language as we went, in 80 hours.
I find this pretty amazing.
(The tool: https://github.com/NBISweden/mdc-file-export )
Visual Foxpro. The application originated in 1986 or so and the original language was dBase II, but moved to FoxBase in 1987, and FoxPro/Visual FoxPro over the next couple of decades. I do as much in Python as I can justify, but I still have to work in VFP quite a bit. I personally have code from 1988 that's still running in this application. Sigh...
But, I'll give FoxPro one plus, it can integrate quite well with REST APIs. Hell, even modern SQL databases are fine.