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Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)

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Re: Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)

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Please take your projected inadequacies elsewhere.

Likewise

You're the one that has three times now commented on one of my posts trying to prove to yourself that everything you're doing is fine and there's nothing you could be doing better from a security perspective.

Re: Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)

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You know, I can always jump from that cliff. Still keep wondering why don't I do it.

Please take your projected inadequacies elsewhere.

I could not reply to your message one below so moving it here: >You're the one that has three times now commented on one of my posts trying to prove to yourself that everything you're doing is fine and there's nothing you could be doing better from a security perspective.

I am just expressing my opinion. You know, taking distraction from mundane work to talk technical things. I am not trying nor do I need to prove how I do my development/design and what tools do I use and frankly I do not give a flying hoot what others might think about it. I run my own business after all.

As to you particular point of language being unsafe because it allows typecast pointer to integer: allowing unsafe features in my view does not make language unsafe as long as it provides safe way of doing things as well. It is called flexibility in my book.

Security wise: could I've done better? Sure. Anything could be done better but you've probably heard about the law of diminishing returns. Does the fact that I use language that have unsafe feature automatically make my software unsafe if I do not use said features - big fat NO. Even if do use such feature (and rarely but sometimes I do for the sake of efficiency) it does not really change the main point.

Re: Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)

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Please take your projected inadequacies elsewhere.

I could not reply to your message one below so moving it here: > You're the one that has three times now commented on one of my posts trying to prove to yourself that everything you're doing is fine and there's nothing you could be doing better from a security perspective. I am just expressing my opinion. You know, taking distraction from mundane work to talk technical things. I am not trying nor do I need to prove h…

What's your business?

As senior engineer at a security conscious firm, who used to freelance by writing exploits for code written by developers with your attitude, I want to make sure we don't use your software.

Re: Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)

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I could not reply to your message one below so moving it here: > You're the one that has three times now commented on one of my posts trying to prove to yourself that everything you're doing is fine and there's nothing you could be doing better from a security perspective. I am just expressing my opinion. You know, taking distraction from mundane work to talk technical things. I am not trying nor do I need to prove h…

What's your business? As senior engineer at a security conscious firm, who used to freelance by writing exploits for code written by developers with your attitude, I want to make sure we don't use your software.

You can save this theatricals for Broadway.

Re: Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)

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What's your business? As senior engineer at a security conscious firm, who used to freelance by writing exploits for code written by developers with your attitude, I want to make sure we don't use your software.

You can save this theatricals for Broadway.

I'm serious. I'd like to make sure that we're not using your code.

Are you seriously afraid to promote your business because it might be attached to your comments? That should tell you something.

Re: Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)

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You can save this theatricals for Broadway.

I'm serious. I'd like to make sure that we're not using your code. Are you seriously afraid to promote your business because it might be attached to your comments? That should tell you something.

I think you should go and get help if you do not understand why people on newsgroups often prefer to stay anonymous.

And if you are as you say major security guy as you claim you probably already checked all the software you allow to use for security breaches. So you either found the problem and got rid of said software or you're just full of it.

And if your business recommendations to your company are base on "attitude" picked from internet chat or shall I say you personal likes why don't you submit this conversation to your employer.

And finally the last thing I feel like doing is promoting my business/services to people like yourself.

Re: Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)

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I did a couple of small projects in Python using wxWidgets recently, and I was surprised at how easy it was (as well as how consistent the results were between Windows and Mac OS).

I'm overall surprised at how unpopular/unknown wxWidgets is when the discussion turns to cross platform UI toolkits. I've used it a lot, as well as other popular toolkits (Qt, GTK, etc.) and I find that wx is, at the very least, the least bad option and overall programming in it hasn't been a pain, regardless of which binding I used. I guess my only complaint would be that it's a bit harder to do something way outsid…

I've been using it for years, and what attracts me is the native UI widgets instead of the self-drawn widgets in Qt and GTK.

This also makes customizing the widgets much harder (if possible at all). There are also some self-drawn widget libraries available for wxWidgets.

Re: Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)

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post #157

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I'm serious. I'd like to make sure that we're not using your code. Are you seriously afraid to promote your business because it might be attached to your comments? That should tell you something.

I think you should go and get help if you do not understand why people on newsgroups often prefer to stay anonymous. And if you are as you say major security guy as you claim you probably already checked all the software you allow to use for security breaches. So you either found the problem and got rid of said software or you're just full of it. And if your business recommendations to your company are base on "attit…

> And if you are as you say major security guy as you claim you probably already checked all the software you allow to use for security breaches. So you either found the problem and got rid of said software or you're just full of it.

Do you know what an 0 day is?

> And if your business recommendations to your company are base on "attitude" picked from internet chat or shall I say you personal likes

My recommendations to my employer are based on many things, including overall security posture. The world's best engineers ship memory unsafety bugs in C and C++, including modern C++. Your statements belay an overall lack of respect for the problem space, which in my experience leads to an increase of issues, even above the general steady state.

> why don't you submit this conversation to your employer.

I plan to as soon as there is actionable information.

> And finally the last thing I feel like doing is promoting my business/services to people like yourself.

You're the one who's been regularly deciding to comment on my posts trying to convince yourself that everything you're doing is fine, and you can't do better. "People like [my]self" are just telling you that you can do better, and only when you decide to go out of your way to start shit.

I'd prefer if you stopped commenting on my posts.

Re: Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)

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This is one heck of a rant. I couldn’t make it through to the end to see if he ever got to the point.

Delphi doesn't get the respect it deserves and C# people are mean.

We are all slaves to the whim of companies. Sure I could've continued using Delphi beyond the late '90's but that would've meant that I wouldn't have been able to hold a job as a developer in the '00's when .NET became all the rage.

Sometimes you just have to make do with what your customers want. And besides, C# is IMHO the best computer language ever invented.

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