Safety is one of the most frequently used and at the same time least precisely defined terms in today’s programming language debate. Hardly any concept is more often instrumentalized and less often examined in its full scope. In public discourse, safety is commonly reduced to memory safety, occasionally supplemented by the promise that entire classes of errors can be eliminated through language…
The Long and Winding Road To Today's Delphi - Happy 29th Birthday !
February 14, 2024
The Long and Winding Road To Delphi’s 29th Birthday
This blog post contains a quick look at 29+ years of development, innovation, community and fun with Delphi.
It Started with Pascal
In order to get to today’s 29th year of Delphi, we have to start back in 1970…
Alvin Toffler once wrote: “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” Ironically, we are in the 21st century, and Windows software development is not an exception. This…
Welcome to an exciting journey of becoming a great Python developer. Python is such a compelling language to learn and master these days. It is an already prevalent tool for data science and machine learning, and current stats show it is going in the right…
Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language which was first launched 31 years ago. It is known for its simplicity, readability, and excellent libraries. It consistently appears in lists of the top programming languages, so many part-time developers consider…
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If you carry out native development on windows for a living, clean coding can add fun and enjoyment to your job. Let us explore some fun facts about clean code windows program development.
1. Why is change inevitable in any software system?
A discarded software does…
Happy 27th Birthday Delphi and a Few Thoughts about Building the Future
February 14, 2022
My first Pascal, Turbo Pascal and Delphi Experiences
I wrote my first Pascal program in 1972 as a Computer Science student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. I knew from the beginning that Pascal would be part of my future career in some way. I first met Philippe Kahn at…
Java was developed by Sun Microsystems and was later acquired by Oracle in 1995. According to its Wikipedia page, “Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language, designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.” Although it has…
