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I've got this weird CD with what I thought was very weird scratches, but I just read it's probably some kind of fungus which could've been caused by the carton digi-pack it's in.
It look kind of neat, but it's quite annoying as it wrecks your CDs...[^]
It's just this CD and none of the CDs that were directly next to it.
So, I tried washing it off, in which I was somewhat successful.
The CD could not be read and now it can be read and even played.
Ripping is another story, however.
So I thought I was smart and tried to create an ISO from it, but my PC froze, stuff got black (WhatsApp somehow kept working through it all) and the CD just went "vrrroooOOOM... vrrroooOOOM... vrrroooOOOM..." and the CD player wouldn't open.
This went on for about ten minutes until I decided to pull the plug, grabbed the (external) disc drive AND ALL OF A SUDDEN EVERYTHING WENT BACK TO NORMAL 
It's even ripping, although at a veeeeeeeery slow pace...
I think it sort of works, but keeps hanging in between.
I might get this CD ripped in 2021, but at this pace, who knows? 
I'll probably just buy a new one.
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Looks like a Damascus knife.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
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Damascus CD, unfortunately not as strong as the knife
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How could I tell? I checked the "About" box on my password storage app - the first "real app" I wrote when when I was confident enough to try something "complicated" in C#. I still use it today, and it still works fine, with no changes or bug fixes since 2009*.
The depressing bit is that since 2010 I've been trying to find the time to rewrite it from scratch, because it's really badly written compared to how I'd do it now ... 
* Which is really amazing considering one app I wrote last year is up to version 2.36 already!
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The frightening thing for me, I've been using it for 21 years this year.
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But ... but ... I only wrote it in 2009!
Show how good a language design it was, though - yes it's been extended, but it's still recognisable as the original language and still one of the most used (if not the most used if you ignore JS which doesn't really count as a computer language - more of a virus IMHO).
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Aye. I'm somewhere in this neighborhood, too. I think 20.
Jon Sagara
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If it ain't broke fix it till it is 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I don't dare break it - I only know one password, and it's the one to get into that app ... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: I still use it today, and it still works fine
Because you know exactly what NOT to do? 
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I think Oracle might still.
You could try asking Oracle@Delphi ...
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Just don't put your hand in his mouth! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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I tried asking...but the Sphinx asked me a question and I couldn't answer it and he ate me.
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I still use Delphi, mainly to support my old code base or to dosomething real quick that isn't good in Python. My new projects are in .Net, C# or F#
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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From my point of view, nobody has implemented visual inheritance as transparently and perfectly as Borland / Embarcadero (more than 20 years ago). Neither WPF nor others can hold a candle here...
They where also the first who gave the tools to split UI and DAL in an effient way (also before more than 20 years).
Unfortunatelly the Borland management was not able to profit from that and last but not least MS bought the VCL chief developer from Borland.
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I used to maintain a few applications using Borland C++ back in the day. I remember liking it very much.
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Yep it is something nice and yes I know it also only from the c++ side
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I have read online that the language is not dead, but dying. Delphi is losing more programmers than gaining.
Delphi is primarily used still for legacy apps.
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Slacker007 wrote: Delphi is primarily used still for legacy apps.
Yeah, that's what I thought too. That's definitely the situation where I work.
Also, it is interesting to me, because the MFC was far better than Borland stuff (IMO), but you certainly are not going to see a new book released on developing with MFC. And there are a lot of MFC devs around. Maybe more than Delphi. Maybe not.
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raddevus wrote: Are people out there still using Delphi?
I know many of them.
Personally, I can't stand Pascal syntax.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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For it's time, Pascal was pretty good - way better than the other "pointer based" language that was big at the time: Algol (C didn't come out until two years after Pascal, and took more years to gain real traction). Yes, COBOL had pointers, but ... 
The problem is that Pascal is nearly 50 years old, and really shows it's age when you compare it to modern languages, though it's been extended pretty well over the years.
I don't use it - C# these days!
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Pascal is good. It's syntax is ugly, though.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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COBOL pointers 
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