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Subject: Re: Please excuse me. (OT)

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 01:51:11 12/01/03

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On December 01, 2003 at 04:37:39, Hristo wrote:

>On December 01, 2003 at 04:26:46, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>On December 01, 2003 at 04:18:43, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>
>>>On December 01, 2003 at 04:10:35, Tony Werten wrote:
>>>
>>>>Even worse, I use Delphi wich doesn't make a difference between sleep() and
>>>>Sleep(). I didn't know there were 2. I'll first find out wich one ends up being
>>>>called.
>>>
>>>Surely there is a way to make Windows API calls in Delphi, right? Or does Delphi
>>>roll that stuff into the language and make the API call underneath the hood?
>>
>>No, I an make apicalls without a problem, just as I would call a dll. Problem is
>>that Delphi doesn't consider different capitals as different names.
>
><soapbox>
><rant>
>This is a rant, nothing more.
>Delphi should be shot in the head if it does this to you!!!
>All computers have a "shift" key and it is used quite often. When you submit
>your reports in school you have to use that key or else you stand a good chance
>of getting an "F". Yet, the designers of this tool called Delphi decided that
>they will skip the "shift" key functionality all together (perhaps they expect
>all users to be oracles). Those designer, wise man, decided that the "shift" key
>is just bullocks, put on your keyboard by some brain dead nitwit, right?
>Probably their decision has something to do with Blaise.
></rant>
>
>Tony,
>with the utter most consideration and respect for you; please go to something
>sensible, like C++ ...
></soapbox>

:)))

Actually, I think it's meant to get rid of code syntax where Something,something
and SomeThing are 3 different variables, wich at a first glance, nobody will
notice. In Delphi you atleast need something1,something2 and something3 wich is
much clearer ;)

Switching to C I would do for a different reason. Borland doesn't seem very
willing to upgrade the compiler (to Opteron). The current one doesn't even use
CMOV. ( The compiler that is, the inline assembly does )

Tony

BTW Delphi isn't really a tool, but a programming language. It's to pascal what
C++ is to C.

>
>Best regards,
>Hristo
>
>>
>>Tony



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