Author: Hristo
Date: 02:04:15 12/01/03
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On December 01, 2003 at 04:51:11, Tony Werten wrote: >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 ;) > :) lovely, don't you think? Someone else decided, for you, that "something" is the same as "SOMETHING". :) You are lucky "they" didn't ask to touch your left ear when typing "something". >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, I could come-up with another set of reasons; I use to dig Pascal+Delphi some time ago, I was still wearing a bib, you see. :-) But now, that I'm a mean and nasty MoFo, I can pass judgment with the same ease as passing gas. ;-) Cheers, Hristo >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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