Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 2/15/25 7:34 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

The Natural Philosopher wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
 

On 13/02/2025 16:03, John Ames wrote:

   Pascal,
on the other hand, gets no performance advantage, while burdening the
programmer with all the bookkeeping that is*necessary*  for safety in
languages like C, even though it keeps all the information needed to
provide a less burdensome, more convenient alternative. Truly deranged.

>
My one and only experience of Pascal was trying to interface with a
pseudo ram disk. It proved impossible to read a sector and then use two
bytes here as 16 bit address - a byte there as something else and then
maybe the whole sector as a data sector.
I rewrote it in C and just cast pointers into the sector to pick up
whatever I needed.
>
Will never ever touch Pascal again. Heap of shit for rank amateurs

 I got exposed, accidentally, to Borland's Delphi (Object Pascal)
when our group started using Borland C++. Found myself in the debugger
stepping through Pascal-like code.
 Sic transit gloria Borland.

   The Borland products were GREAT STUFF from TP v1.0,
   a whole different experience, a whole new level of
   productivity.
   Delphi - well - really good, but they went all weird
   on the pricing. Lazarus is a VERY close clone and costs
   nothing (plus is cross-platform) so ....
   In any case, even now, if I need a decent GUI then
   I generally program in Laz/FPC. Yep, the 'look and
   feel' is kinda Win98/2k, but what works, works.
   'C' can sometimes Get It Done smaller/easier - but
   the GUI builders can be a real pain, and time-eaters,
   to deal with.
   Anyway, to each need, the correct tool.
   Now just waiting on FORTRAN GUI-BUILDER  :-)