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Oh (sounds of objects whistling over head).
Me gotta go sharpen stone axe now.
Someone left big black monolith blocking cave entrance.
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I hope it was a joke as the provided link contradicts “1988” in the first paragraph.
Quote: The C# programming language was designed by Anders Hejlsberg from Microsoft in 2000 and was later approved as an international standard by Ecma (ECMA-334) in 2002
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About 30 years ago Delphi (as part of RAD Studio) was a big thing in Windows development...
Probably the only true RAD at that time with the very impressive VCL...
I actually used it to write a POC for moving from DOS(COBOL) to Windows (as one who used Turbo Pascal to write my final project I had a soft spot for Pascal)...
But as we couldn't find people knowing Pascal we moved to VB... (something MS encouraged too)
Probably the most regrettable decisions we ever made...
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I did love Delphi. It was not niche, but it was vastly different from Pascal. I had to modify a lot of code to be 2k compliant in Pascal, and it was hard.
In Delphi, we mucked with pointers and I might accidentally have killed a company by writing an article. It was my first article ever, not even on CodeProject.
Delphi meant RAD on Win32. It was quick like VB6, but you could do more. Of course I loved it, still do. You can downplay it, but that doesn't mean we didn't deliver a real time product. And by real time I do mean real time, it responded in less than 24 frames (and you shared a few ms with other stuff). On a non real time OS.
Our world was between VB6 with its ease, and C with its power. You can ridicule it all you want 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: It was not niche,
Not the best word choice on my part.
I meant that it was not used very much. Not that it was limited.
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I still have the book on Delphi 5 by Marco Cantu. Unfortunately did not go through it fully. Had to modify, enhance software tools related to a wind energy simulation software, which i believe is still in Delphi.
Same is the case with Jeff Prosise's MFC book. Which was also purchased around the same time, 2002/2003. Did not read it fully.
modified 14-Feb-24 22:10pm.
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Quote: "Pascal became Turbo Pascal which became Borland Delphi"
Ummm, not as I recall, Turbo Pascal was the Borland flavor of Pascal which only existed on PC's I had Pascal on the Amiga it was tight to the standard which Turbo took liberty's with you didn't have to have
Program Hello at the top or the horrible
Program Hello (INPUT/OUTPUT) for you Dos junkies as I recall it gave a new line with each { preventing K&R style. It also had Poke and Peek, I was there man,I saw things, horrible things 
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What is the smallest positive integer minus the largest negative integer?
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Infinity - if you're talking about real numbers.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Oh? Is -2 bigger than -1 now? 
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For sure: if I have -$2, I owe the bank more than if I had -$1. $2 is a larger number, indicating a larger debt.
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If you say that getting the money
is the most important thing
You will spend your life
completely wasting your time
You will be doing things
you don't like doing
In order to go on living
That is, to go on doing things
you don't like doing
Which is stupid.
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Well, considering the largest negative integer tends to infinity…
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Undefined, tending to infinity???
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So which is bigger: -1 or -2?
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This was the first question that crossed my mind. According to the interweb, it's the size of the absolute value.
Maybe it really depends on what the numbers are representing. On a graph, (-2,-2) is a greater distance from the origin than (-1,-1).
I would rather reverse my car into a lamp post at -1mph than -20!
Of course, doing it the other way round could be a good way out of a speeding fine. If I state I was clocking my speed in a backwards direction then my forward speed would be negative and the further I went above the speed limit, the smaller my speed would be. "Take him down ..."
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Arithmetic Overflow. 
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Smallest positive integer = 1
Largest negative integer = -1
Difference is 2.
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That was my first shot as well, but the answers above cast a big doubt. I am too naive.
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Dat's de bunny! 
Surprising how many people think -2 is bigger than -1.
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Also what I got, mostly as I've had to solve this puzzle in multiple math classes, and was usually the only person to get it right (sadly).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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