[DUG] The Sons of Khan and the Pascal Spring
Alister Christie
alister at salespartner.co.nz
Thu Jan 19 10:19:09 NZDT 2012
I get emails from people starting in Delphi, so there are at least a few
Delphi users who are not going to get the Khan reference.
Alister Christie
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On 17/01/2012 11:59 a.m., Colin Johnsun wrote:
> 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.
>> --
>>
>> Steve Peacocke
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