Re: [BLACKBOX] Years ahead of its time

From: Douglas G. Danforth <"Douglas>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 11:48:27 -0700

----boundary-LibPST-iamunique-252524226_-_- Content-type: text/plain And so, why is Delphi more popular than BlackBox? I have never understood why elegance fails to win in the market place. It seems that complexity and obfuscation grabs people more. Why is this? -Doug Danforth Chris Burrows wrote: I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I read this message enquiring about Delphi 2010 in the Delphi newsgroup today: "My question is this: has Delphi caught up with OLE yet, allowing objects to be embedded in a code file? For documentation purposes I would like to embed in the surce code file objects like images, equations, and hyperlinks - very useful to the human reader of the code, but simply ignored by the compiler." (BTW the answer is 'No') Needless to say I directed them to the BlackBox site ... -- Chris Burrows CFB Software Armaide v2.1: ARM Oberon-07 Development System http://www.armaide.com ---- To unsubscribe, send a message with body "SIGNOFF BLACKBOX" to LISTSERV{([at]})nowhere.xy ---- To unsubscribe, send a message with body "SIGNOFF BLACKBOX" to LISTSERV{([at]})nowhere.xy ----boundary-LibPST-iamunique-252524226_-_- Content-type: application/rtf Content-transfer-encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="rtf-body.rtf" e1xydGYxXGFuc2lcYW5zaWNwZzEyNTJcZnJvbWh0bWwxIFxkZWZmMHtcZm9udHRibA0Ke1xmMFxm c3dpc3MgQXJpYWw7fQ0Ke1xmMVxmbW9kZXJuIENvdXJpZXIgTmV3O30NCntcZjJcZm5pbFxmY2hh cnNldDIgU3ltYm9sO30NCntcZjNcZm1vZGVyblxmY2hhcnNldDAgQ291cmllciBOZXc7fX0NCntc Y29sb3J0YmxccmVkMFxncmVlbjBcYmx1ZTA7XHJlZDBcZ3JlZW4wXGJsdWUyNTU7fQ0KXHVjMVxw YXJkXHBsYWluXGRlZnRhYjM2MCBcZjBcZnMyNCANCntcKlxodG1sdGFnMjQzIDwhRE9DVFlQRSBo dG1sIFBVQkxJQyAiLS8vVzNDLy9EVEQgSFRNTCA0LjAxIFRyYW5zaXRpb25hbC8vRU4iPn0NCntc 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