Posts tagged Delphi

One more degree of freedom for C++

Feb 14th

Posted by Daniel Rákos in General

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Those who worked enough with C or other procedure oriented languages know how much flexibility callbacks provide. The simplest example is the qsort function of the C standard library. It is also not unintentional that many libraries, windowing system APIs and operating system APIs also highly rely on callbacks to pass a particular task over to another program module and it is one of the fundamental tools needed to implement an event-driven application. At the same time, object oriented languages does not directly support the concept of callbacks as they don’t really fit into the paradigms used by these languages. Fortunately, even if not as a language feature, all object oriented languages support a similar facility like callbacks in the form of delegates.

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Never seen flexibility for Delphi

Jan 22nd

Posted by Daniel Rákos in Programming

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As far as I can tell people still prefer using python for scripting in their Delphi projects. This is probably because python scripting in Delphi has a long history and it is a proven method with easy integration. What if I would tell you that there is a free solution which enables you to write also your scripts in pascal? A few years ago I discovered an alternative that makes this possible. This highly influenced my vision about the importance of scripting. Since that I accompanied all my hobby projects with full scripting support.

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Manage code yourself

Jan 11th

Posted by Daniel Rákos in General

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Those who know me know it well that I am not a big fan of languages which produce managed code. In this article I would like to cover the reasons behind my skepticism. Also I would like to dispel the myths around such languages and try to prove them with facts (we will see how well I manage to achieve this). If you disagree with me, you’ll most probably hate me because of making this post but please, respect my personal point of view.

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