@AJHenderson I don't really think of it as renting, but then again I don't think of Netflix as renting either. It certainly makes sense though. If I buy a movie I might watch it ten times in its lifetime.
@TheMuffinMan Well, the question isn't posted on Janitorial Supplies Stack Exchange, so that's a given, but you're also clearly underestimating importance of janitorial supplies in aerospace industry. Chuck Yeager used a broom handle as a makeshift lever so he could close the hatch of his X-1 after he broke two of his ribs. That broom handle enabled him to be the first man to break the sound barrier. Jack Parsons invented castable solid propellants as he observed two workers "mopping" the roofing asphalt on the roof of some storage building. Duct tape saved Apollo 13. And so on... — TildalWave ♦36 mins ago
@TildalWave Nope, as far as I know, it's still Delphi.
Microsoft doesn't tend to spend time re-writing things when they buy them. FAST was an exception.
Hotmail wasn't re-written for years, and when it was, it was because they wanted a huge site to dogfood new versions of ASP.NET to make sure they worked at that scale.
I still think Object Pascal is cool tho, it should be anyone's first proper language. It's really easy to move to most other languages from it, but only after you've learned to be consistent with it.
@Xander Ah sure. And MS had fat fingers up Borland's behind too (Team-B still during the .NET times), that's why Delphi fast became a joke with no one to continue developing for it at the level everyone got used to. I still sometimes use Delphi 7, but wouldn't touch the new ones and not just because of ridiculous pricing. It simply doesn't do anything I can't do in Lazarus better, if I really want to stick to Object Pascal code for some reason.
