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520 points omnibrain | 5 comments | 30 Mar 24 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.813s | source
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baobabKoodaa ◴[30 Mar 24 21:30 UTC] No.39878862[source]▶
IrfanView is great, but I'm curious, why is it on top of HN today of all days? Was there something significant happening?
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huytersd ◴[30 Mar 24 22:28 UTC] No.39879307[source]▶
It happens every now and then. Could be as simple as nostalgia.
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fuzztester ◴[30 Mar 24 23:25 UTC] No.39879643[source]▶
Like Delphi, FreePascal and Lazarus, though less often for those three than for IrfanView, and those three get a good number of sneers by modern ignoramuses, each time. The joke is on them, due to the amount of late night and weekend work (unpaid, often) that many of them have to pull, and tamely accept and try to justify, to save their egos and paychecks.

"The emperor has no clothes" kind of thing ...

And nowadays, layoffs, too ...

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1. nrdvana ◴[31 Mar 24 03:58 UTC] No.39881282[source]▶
Delphi kicked ass. Though, looking back, it didn't have hash tables at your fingertips like modern languages. I really can't imagine writing code without hashmaps anymore. Did that ever get added, and in a convenient way that doesn't require declaring a new object each time?
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2. nurettin ◴[31 Mar 24 07:14 UTC] No.39882133[source]▶
You could use TDictionary. It has been around since 15 years.
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3. fuzztester ◴[31 Mar 24 20:27 UTC] No.39887771[source]▶
Good question.

nurettin replied, sibling comment.

But it's not difficult to write your own for simple map types at least, like with strings as the keys. Generic maps would be harder.

4. nrdvana ◴[01 Apr 24 05:01 UTC] No.39891066[source]▶
Sadly by 2009 I'd moved on to a new job and didn't have much opportunity to use it. It didn't even have generics when I used it last. Looks like you have to allocate and free them manually though, which is less than I hoped for. I rather like the scripting languages where they are part of the syntax and seamlessly decode from JSON.
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5. fuzztester ◴[02 Apr 24 01:45 UTC] No.39901519{3}[source]▶
No true Delphiman would say that ;)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman