12 Apr
2011
12 Apr
'11
6:54 a.m.
On 12 April 2011 14:44, Gene Buckle <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
Peter Tattam? Of recent return to fame?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282875
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On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Liam Proven wrote:
Damn that British understatement habit of mine!
OIC! Right, sorry. I think your wording was a bit
ambiguous, though.
If by "a bit", you mean "completely", you're right. :)
I think
someone else has already said all I know - that, IIRC, you
could write extensions for VB in Delphi, whereas you could not in VB
itself. Yes, I think Delphi is a full-blown, proper, compiled language
and in principle you could write anything in it. I vaguely recall
maybe hearing about compiler projects and even OS projects attempted
in it.
The guy that wrote Trumpet Winsock figured out a process for writing device
drivers in Delphi a few years ago. ?Up to that point it was "common
knowledge" that such a thing was impossible.