Never liked Delphi. Or any Pascal TBH. Fine for teaching at Uni but bloody hopeless for doing anything practical.
And type safety...well I've got a soft spot for a couple of former projects which relied on interchangeably viewing a DP number as an array of 4 shorts. Hideous but hideously efficient.
But the smart money has been saying for decades that nobody can write safe C, and anyone who thinks that they are so smart that they are able to do it _definitely_ can't.
We should not be writing new C in 2025. At all. That stuff should be confined to history now.
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And type safety...well I've got a soft spot for a couple of former projects which relied on interchangeably viewing a DP number as an array of 4 shorts. Hideous but hideously efficient.
But the smart money has been saying for decades that nobody can write safe C, and anyone who thinks that they are so smart that they are able to do it _definitely_ can't.
We should not be writing new C in 2025. At all. That stuff should be confined to history now.