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1) Go to YouTube to refresh your memory: Monty Python's Flying Circus - World's Funniest Joke - YouTube[^] (4:40 it's first read in German)
2) Go to Google Translate
3) Select "Detect language" and "English"
4) Enter the following: "Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput"
5) Read the translation. 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Go to YouTube to refresh your memory: Monty Python's Flying Circus - World's Funniest Joke - YouTube[^] (4:40 it's first read in German)
I'm not falling for that one. Last time was already devastating enough; I spent months going to funerals every weekend.
[Edit]
It appears to be just as bad for the Bing translator, but not in the way you'd think.
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I tested the reverse and....?
It worked perfectly 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I'm pretty sure that has been reported here before. Most likely by you.
modified 21-Jan-19 13:45pm.
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They'll need a sense of humor considering the GDPR fine they just were handed.
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Google is Not my friend, and I won't jump through the hoops it sets up to try to prove that it is.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There goes my work laptop...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I love that it is not just an error, but a rather fatal one. My online research indicates that this string of "German" text is just jibberish and has no actual meaning in German.
So, in 1969 it was jibberish. In 2019 it is a fatal error.
Nice.
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Hi All,
We as a company are reliant on several pieces of software that were written in Delphi now the only machine that can update them is hidden under a desk that only a select few know of. At least one of the Gurus who wrote the software has since died, several have left the firm, there is one bit that is crucial that will only run XP Service Pack 2 and nothing higher. A bit of Googling and there is a tool to do it Delphi to C# Conversion - Ispirer has anyone tried it know of another... I trying to avoid problems... 
UPDATE:
Speaking to the Delphi guru, it uses all sorts of third party interface to make life easier and non-convertible.  well it's better than nothing...
modified 22-Jan-19 5:46am.
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Ah, the famous "machine under the desk" scenario. I have experienced this type of scenario many years ago.
My very limited experience with code converters (vb to c#) has taught me that you still need to fix the hell out of the resultant conversion, no matter what tool you use.
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Slacker007 wrote: My very limited experience with code converters (vb to c#) has taught me that you still need to fix the hell out of the resultant conversion, no matter what tool you use.
But, in the age of AI!?!* 
THis is my way of saying, "Yep, I have found the same to be true."
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Quote: only run XP Service Pack 2 and nothing higher
Must be a very special thing or it is Delphi 1. I need also to maintain a legacy Delphi/c++ Builder 6 application, but until now no problem with it up to W10 
[Edit]
And a converter from Pascal (Borland Pascal with some very proprietary extensions) to c# will most probably very hard/impossible to find
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Maybe a code generator thing in the age of NX bit, like the original SOAP component.
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Might be cheaper to build it anew, then to figure out why there's all this weird legacy-code.
The converter would choke on my "uDebug" unit, because the debug-files in .NET look a bit different from the map-files in Delphi. As long as the code is straightforward, conversions "may" work, but anything out of the ordinary will fail.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: As long as the code is straightforward
I burst my spleen, laughing too hard!!! 
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Not for many years - it's the kind of thing you don't attempt more than once.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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It's funny because everyone one of us who've experienced code conversion are all just like, "Well, yes, but I wish I didn't have that experience." It's just old wounds to think about now. Nothing else. 
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glennPattonWork wrote: Delphi to C# Conversion
What do you have access to? Does this thing convert from Delphi source, or a compiled program originally written in Delphi? Big difference.
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We have the source code and the single remaining author...
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glennPattonWork wrote: and the single remaining author
Wait! And "single remaining author" hasn't already rewritten it!?!
To the gallows with "single remaining author"!!
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You know how these Delphi ghouls are, they refuse to program in any other language than Delphi 
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They have good reason to stick.
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Just kidding 
I must say that I find Delphi a bit too costly, but there's Lazarus as an open source alternative, the interesting thing is that you can develop cross-platform applications with it and it has a forms designer (seems a rarity nowadays).
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Yup. The one person I know who does Delphi gets paid well above the market rate, to the extent that he can't afford to bail for a newer platform, for being one of 8(? unless there's another user than his employer) people in his city who still use the stuff. The gotcha is that the lack of any plan B that'd sustain his current lifestyle if his current employer ever goes under is a huge stressor. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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