mika9090

Try Pascal (free pascal or Delphi)

Not as good as right click but can be done from the command line (PS) $Host.UI.RawUI.WindowTitle = "Corona"

Thanks. I should have been more specific :-)

I wanted examples of things that other IDEs have that the Delphi IDE doesn't.

Examples?

Delphi is still the best thing for Windows app programming. It is so unfortunate what happen to it business wise.

Cool. I love Delphi to this day. Nothing beats that for Windows native apps IMHO.

Any interesting stories to share? I read somewhere that now the compile is a million lines of undocumented code.

Communism at its best.

I also suggest that those people charged with designing this new unified CPU will have a progress quota. And if they do not meet this quota they will be send to a labour camp. This will surely speed things up!

And just to be sure all is fair you will in charged of defining this quota.

Serious question: is there a salvation for native desktop development??

I worked in PL/1 for 4 years. Saying it is just "F&%ing works" made me laugh hard! The compilation never failed because the compiler assumed what you really wanted. I got many bizarre programs.

Python didn't beat R because it's OO ...

My point that it beat R although it is OOP. This is to show that OOP is not inherently bad. Many people find it useful to the point the 'preserved' advantages of FP are not worth the effort.

This is just anecdotal ...

My anecdote story is very different than yours. To the point if one of my engineers will ever suggest FP again he will get fired on the spot.

You are right, it should have been a comment to another person on this thread. Not the OP.

My point regarding the number of FP languages that it is not a silver bullet, neither is OOP to be sure, but FP has its own set of problems hence the many different implementations.

Regarding OOP languages implementing classic FP features, which is true and a blessing! These are good features which IMHO gives more credit to OOP languages.

People just don't have enough experience with Functional Programming to really know how awful it is. So now it is the new kid on the block (in terms of going mainstream) so people think it is the best thing ever.

The most telling sign is how many FP languages are in existence today. If it was such a good thing we wouldn't need them all. It is a mess that cause many other types of problems without any clear benefit.

I do get that many people like the FP paradigm, no two humans are alike and people will find different ways of thinking and reasoning about a problem more suitable. Which is OK. BUT it doesn't mean FP is a any better than OPP or vice versa.

Last I would like to point out how Python (OOP) obliterated R (FP) it the Data Science market although R enjoyed a head start of few years and was the Franca Lingua of statisticians.

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