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Re: Why I Choose Delphi

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vram22 wrote: post #297
TimJYoung wrote: post #289

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Thanks again for the detailed reply. I will definitely try Pharo and see how it all works. I've read a bit here and there about Smalltalk over the years, and the whole environment seems really cool. I'm especially interested in the whole "not requiring static types", because that may give some ideas on how to do a JS IDE without losing the functionality that we wish to maintain. The "liveness" of the Smalltalk enviro…

I just read scroot's comment (the grandparent comment to mine, and parent to yours). I found it somewhat uncannily similar to a sub-thread involving HN user mikelevins (a long-time Lisp developer) in another HN thread a while ago (about Lisp). He commented on something (it was a thread about a Show HN about Full Stack Lisp, a book), I asked a question, he replied in more depth. His description of some advanced featur…

I also should mention that I only started getting into the Smalltalk stuff a year ago, and am by no means an expert. But reading about it and using it (Pharo mostly) really changed the way I think not only about programming, but computing more generally. If you ever watch a Kay lecture you won't really get what he's saying until you've used one of these live environments, whether it's Smalltalk or an interactive Lisp.

I recommend getting the Adele Goldberg "Smalltalk: The Language and its Implementation" (colloquially known as the "Blue Book"). I find it to be the second best programming book ever, aside from The Little Schemer.

Re: Why I Choose Delphi

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Post by mamcx »

int_19h wrote: post #266
mamcx wrote: post #179

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I totally agree. I'm pondering about build a Fox-in-spirit. I still mantain that NO programming tool today is good for database-development, and we need a modern take on the dbase. My idea is build a relational language with a lot of the ideas of fox but with a modern syntax. If somebody wanna to talk about this, and maybe help, I'm open!

Judging by the all comments and the upvotes in this thread, it looks like it's a more popular sentiment than I expected - so, sure? But this is probably best discussed in a setting more convenient than HN comments.

What about skype or slack? In http://www.elmalabarista.com I have my contact info

Re: Why I Choose Delphi

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Post by mamcx »

yumaikas wrote: post #222
mamcx wrote: post #179

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I totally agree. I'm pondering about build a Fox-in-spirit. I still mantain that NO programming tool today is good for database-development, and we need a modern take on the dbase. My idea is build a relational language with a lot of the ideas of fox but with a modern syntax. If somebody wanna to talk about this, and maybe help, I'm open!

Why don't you make a small github organization and drop a link here? I've done some programming language work on the side, and I've been wondering a little about stuff like this.

Look like I have already a very old project (dormant) at https://bitbucket.org/elmalabarista/tablam/src, but more learning how do languages that seriously take the problem.

We could continue talking from here, in http://elmalabarista.com I have my contact info

Re: Why I Choose Delphi

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Post by vram22 »

scroot wrote: post #301
vram22 wrote: post #297

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just read scroot's comment (the grandparent comment to mine, and parent to yours). I found it somewhat uncannily similar to a sub-thread involving HN user mikelevins (a long-time Lisp developer) in another HN thread a while ago (about Lisp). He commented on something (it was a thread about a Show HN about Full Stack Lisp, a book), I asked a question, he replied in more depth. His description of some advanced featur…

I also should mention that I only started getting into the Smalltalk stuff a year ago, and am by no means an expert. But reading about it and using it (Pharo mostly) really changed the way I think not only about programming, but computing more generally. If you ever watch a Kay lecture you won't really get what he's saying until you've used one of these live environments, whether it's Smalltalk or an interactive Lisp…

Thanks, will try to check out that book at some point, and Pharo too.

Re: Why I Choose Delphi

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Post by vram22 »

TimJYoung wrote: post #300
vram22 wrote: post #297

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just read scroot's comment (the grandparent comment to mine, and parent to yours). I found it somewhat uncannily similar to a sub-thread involving HN user mikelevins (a long-time Lisp developer) in another HN thread a while ago (about Lisp). He commented on something (it was a thread about a Show HN about Full Stack Lisp, a book), I asked a question, he replied in more depth. His description of some advanced featur…

Thanks, I'll check those out. For a sub-thread that involved my original post getting down-voted, this is turning out to be very informative. ;-)

Ha, good one, and welcome.

Re: Why I Choose Delphi

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Post by j_s »

skrebbel wrote: post #19
problems wrote: post #15

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If you're looking for something more Deplhi-like, why don't you just use .NET? Mostly open source now, tons of 3rd party libraries and component packages available for it, just like Delphi in its glory days.

Because I want a UI that works on Windows and macOS out of the box. Plus I want it to have a tiny memory/CPU footprint and while .NET/WPF is better than the average Electron app I still notice a difference.

Golang + Facebook's C flexbox yoga? Not sure it covers all the bases but it's a new option!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14928177

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