@in_sympathy@mastodon.social avatar in_sympathy , to random

For so many years I’ve been wondering but never really knew what happened to Borland and Delphi.

I hated Pascal due to how discouraging our lyceum teacher was and how ancient TP felt in the early 2000s. Plus I learned QBasic at school and then logically moved on to Visual Basic 6.

Though I remember that indeed Delphi was better than VB in many ways, including not needing to provide a runtime.

https://youtu.be/Ubie5xxfdzE?si=lYYWW6imdzDys_ws

@hp@tmm.cx avatar hp , to random

Wow, after installing 2.5.1 on my ultra 10, I can really see why people loved these old workstations.

It's so easy to develop some software on this!

A picture of two Ultra 10 sun workstations stacked on top of each other. Next to it is a monitor that shows a CDE desktop with Visual Basic 3

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@indigoparadox@mastodon.social avatar indigoparadox , to random

Since foone is making trend, just a reminder to check out my fun projects, if you want. Including the OpenGL demo and the GDI-based raycaster, (see hashtag for source link): https://mastodon.social/@indigoparadox/113360125091578147

It's not VB6 but VB4 is just as good IMO. Even better, since it can run in Windows 3.x!

@xnite@infosec.exchange avatar xnite , to random


I am a self taught programmer in mostly just & right now but historically I have written code in and just a little bit of and a very little bit of #C & .
In the past I have written a lot about offensive security, however after a years long hiatus I have shifted focus over to defensive security in regards to operating a server, or network, which I write about on my at https://www.xnite.me/ .
I actively develop and operate a Minecraft server database at https://www.breakblocks.com/ which has an active community of almost 1,300 members on at the time of this post.

I meant to write this introduction sooner but life sucker punched me in the face.. I'm not down for the count yet though!