[DUG] The Sons of Khan and the Pascal Spring

[Colin Johnsun]

This is only anecdotal, but most Delphi developers I meet are usually
over 35-40, and have "used Delphi since it was Turbo Pascal", so I'd
say, there is a very good chance that they'd know Philip Khan.

It's also a sad fact, that there doesn't seem to be too many younger
people taking up Delphi.

Colin

On 17 January 2012 09:51, Steve Peacocke <steve at peacocke.net> wrote:
> I wonder how many actually remember Philip Khan.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Tuesday, 17 January 2012, Stefan Mueller <muellers at orcl-toolbox.com>
> wrote:
>> Just found it on “The Register” today and thought it makes for an amusing
>> (but a bit longwinded) read:
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/16/verity_stob_sons_of_khan_2011/
>>
>>
>>
>> The woes of Techdom
>>
>> 1.      And it came to pass that the seasons rose and fell, and financial
>> crisis waned while new financial crisis waxed, and the Kimjongilia flower
>> did wither and fade on the vine.
>>
>> 2.      But misfortune struck the code cutters of Java, who were still on
>> their never-ending pilgrimage to the land of Lambda, whence other pilgrims
>> had long since been and gone and shrunk the T-shirt.
>>
>> 3.      And they awakened one morning to discover that they no longer
>> worshipped the Sun god, but now did owe their allegiance unto the Mighty
>> Beard. Bummer.
>>
>> 4.      But the Sharpers of Dotnet were also troubled, especially the cult
>> of Silver Light. And they looked fearfully upon the antics of the high
>> priest of the Softies, saying: What the blazes doth Fester think he playeth
>> at?
>>
>> 5.      However, the Sharpers were laughing compared with the fate of the
>> tribe of Flashinites. For the departed god Steve had cursed them with
>> a great curse.
>>
>> 6.      And He had stationed a cherubim with a flaming sword which turned
>> every direction to guard the way to the store of apps, and banished them
>> from the sweet money orchards of Cupertino.
>>
>> 7.      Wherefore the king of the Flashinites, that is called Adobe, did
>> consider hard and long.
>>
>> 8.      Yeah, he considered for longer than it taketh a Dellish machine to
>> reboot with yet another Acrobat upgrade.
>>
>> 9.      Then, when he had finished thinking, Adobe did ungird his loins.
>> And he did conceal the sword of resistance into the scabbard of abrupt
>> capitulation, and the shield of technicalleadership into the
>> cupboard-under-the-stairs of user base abandonment.
>>
>> 10.   Yet even the Æsthetes, that art the disciples which loveth the Jesus
>> phone the most, were discontent.
>>
>> 11.   Wherefore the language of the Æsthetes was Æbjective C.
>>
>> 12.   And this Æbjective C is about as æsthetic as the secret mouldy side
>> of the last orange in the bowl, that one discovereth abruptly when one
>> taketh it up.
>>
>> 13.   Yet the Æsthetes admitted this not.
>>
>> 14.   And so it went on, among all the tribes and cults and sects in the
>> land of developers, there flourished the stinking weed of discontent.
>>
>> 15.   And every geek that micturateth against the wall was baffled and
>> afraid.
>>
>> Opportunity knocketh
>>
>> 1.      And in those times the elders of the tribe of the Sons of Kahn
>> did live in the discotheque of Embarcadearohdearohdearyme. And they looked
>> out upon this chaos.
>>
>> 2.      And they saw that it was good.
>>
>> 3.      For one elder spake up in this manner: if we punt out a decent
>> version of Delphi now, we could be onto a fantastic hearts-and-minds win,
>> and we will enjoy the Second Coming of Pascal.
>>
>> 4.      For all we need do is make it more modern than Java, and more
>> 'native'-allowing-the-inference-but-certainly-not-actually-stating-faster
>> than C#, and more Apple-friendly than Flash, and less hideous than Æbjective
>> C.
>>
>> 5.      And targetting not only on both 32- and 64-bit Windows, but
>> also Mac OS and iOS.
>>
>> 6.      So the blessed users of Delphi may loll around in the sweet money
>> orchards ofCupertino.
>>
>> 7.      And little children shall once more dangle their elses in the
>> limpid brook, and weave repeat/until loops from honeysuckle blossoms, and
>> even declare local procedures.
>
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