Nick Hodges started a thread here https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=88003. Regarding the promotion of Delphi, one of his statements says:
Nick Hodges started a thread here https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=88003. Regarding the promotion of Delphi, one of his statements says:
"Giving it away (or selling it for really low prices) in schools.
Schools react, they don't lead. It's a huge effort with little return.".
I'm not so sure about this. I know I started using Pascal/Delphi in University.
My question is, what got you started with Delphi?
https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=88003
"Giving it away (or selling it for really low prices) in schools.
Schools react, they don't lead. It's a huge effort with little return.".
I'm not so sure about this. I know I started using Pascal/Delphi in University.
My question is, what got you started with Delphi?
https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=88003
Turbo Pascal in school. After that they switched to teaching Visual Basic because it was cheaper than Delphi. That was 1996 IIRC.
ReplyDeleteApple Pascal in School, later Turbo Pascal in University. That Way I got addicted to Borlands Pascal Products.
ReplyDeletePascal in school
ReplyDeleteI have always been a polyglot, but yes, my college offered 2 tracks at the time: C and BP, I took the Pascal route because I was already familiar with BP7 and its earlier variants. It was a natural transition into Delphi when it came out. I made a lot of money with BP7!
ReplyDeleteTurbo Pascal in University,
ReplyDeleteturbo pascal in middle school, for NOI. then selfstuy delphi in university.
ReplyDeletePascal in school, combined with the copy of Turbo Pascal my dad bought.
ReplyDeleteStarted with Basic, then Turbo Pascal at the club out of school. Im not sure which language i have studied at the school. I have been network administrator there (Netware 3.11 - you was great). At the university - C++, first work was with Delphi, so it still used at work.
ReplyDeleteI believed that a lot of people started using Delphi/Pascal at school/university, but this very non scientific poll has surprised even me. Not a single respondent discovered the language anywhere other than in education. Maybe this will go someway to changing Nick Hodges opinion. Marco Cantù, how about including the question in a future Delphi survey?
ReplyDeleteIn 1995 I was a C developer. I was the only developer in the company building PC applications (Other developers where building Cobol applications on a mainframe). I was asked to convert Cobol programmers to Windows programmers. C language was far to complex. I evaluated a number of languages, including VB. Fortunately Delphi 1 just came on the market. I attended a seminar and I was convinced. I never stopped using Delphi since then and today, I use XE4.
ReplyDeleteI learned Java in University, although we were the first year to change from Pascal in 2000. So I just missed out... But I did learn Comal in High School which is based on BASIC and Pascal.
ReplyDeleteI started my current job in 2005 which was to start converting a Delphi codebase to C#. But 7.5 years later, Delphi is what we write everything in and we learned that Delphi is still awesome and migrating a large codebase is a crap idea ( as our previous owners learned, hahaha ).
LOL. My current employer made the switch, but lots of our customers haven't. Since they're still paying for support and regulatory updates and bug fixes, I still work the code, even if it's frozen in time.
ReplyDeleteI started with Z80 assembler, fiddled with Pascal/M and Pascal-MT+. Tinkered with Aztec C, then got excited when I got TP 1.0 on the Z80. Kept on with TP, then BP, then Wasabi! And never looked back.
ReplyDeleteOh dear, I've been trying to not post in the official forums, but I just couldn't help myself with that post...
ReplyDeleteAnyway, a friend of mine "aquired" Turbo Pascal 6 for me when I was about 14 from some BBS, which made me switch from QBASIC to Pascal. I found TP very accessible due to the nice built-in help compared to C/C++ (DJGPP which was all the rage that time). I didn't know anyone else who knew programming, so the F1 help was all I had. Stayed on the Pascal road after that, until six years ago.