Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students
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Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students
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Re: Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students
#2Next up: COBOL?
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#3I have a soft spot for Delphi but this is odd.
Delphi has seen its day. Any number of other languages can be taught for free... python is probably a more relevant choice.
Re: Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students
#4Next up: COBOL?
There is nothing wrong Delphi, other than it's largely a niche language
Re: Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students
#5i have no idea why delphi still seems so popular in the middle east, a large number of mobile phone tools are still coded in delphi but ive never really understood why
Re: Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students
#6I have a soft spot for Delphi but this is odd. Delphi has seen its day. Any number of other languages can be taught for free... python is probably a more relevant choice.
Delphi is still very relevant when building desktop applications.
Re: Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students
#7I have a soft spot for Delphi but this is odd. Delphi has seen its day. Any number of other languages can be taught for free... python is probably a more relevant choice.
Delphi is still very relevant when building desktop applications.
Which is rather not where the world has been going towards in the last decade or so.
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#8I had to giggle recently when I heard "Delphi is dead". It's not. And I don't think it ever will, because, both as a language and work environment, it is quite powerful.
It has pretty low entry barriers, and is pretty capable. When I used it (as a hobbiest, during Delphi 5 and Delphi 7 times), it had a superb tooling, and a really efficient compiler. Everything "just worked". It's now 15 - 20 years ago, when we created really tiny Windows exe files. A notepad.exe clone in only 23kb size - with no external dependencies at all, just using pure Windows32 API and Delphi. These where truely fun times.
Miss them some times.
Re: Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students
#9I really don't want to sound cynical about this great initiative(!) but it saddens me that among many open modern languages and tools, they instead opted for Delphi.
I cannot think of a single positive reason behind this decision in 2020. All I can think of is that the people that came to this conclusion are the ones who graduated from Computer Science related studies in ~1998-2004~ and immediately got themselves in politics. I lost count of how many times have I heard that if you pay for it, it's just better...
Finally, I admit that I'm definitely highly biassed when it comes to Turkish Politics.
Re: Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students
#10Python & Java and .Net has quite a bit of traction in Turkish software industry. I believe Delphi is mainly used in healthcare but has been losing market share for years.
I think this is just another money embezzlement scheme by Turkish official, which shouldn't be that surprising unfortunately.