are they ill tempered?

I've got it running on a dead badger.

You're an idiot!

What if you have already tried C++ and found the syntax to be archaeic? Anyway, yeah, check out Lazarus. It's really starting to look mature.

Free edition of Delphi.

It seems unlikely that that many people would be allergic.

It couldn't have been toxic gases from mixing of the cleaning agents or the lady doing the cleaning would certainly have been affected most. Not being able to smell doesn't give you immunity to toxic gases.

Likely the people just felt ill because of the bad smell and felt the need to see a doctor about it.

All the developer tools were spun off a couple of years ago into CodeGear, which was bought by Embarcadero last year.

All those tools you knew are still alive and well. Delphi 2009 is the best native Win32 developer tool in the world and the language is experiencing a renaissance with the addition of new language features such as generics and anonymous methods. The whole environment has recieved major upgrades as well, which has also benefitted C++ builder, since they use the same IDE. They are also really starting to nail down the documentation side, which honestly has been the suits weak point for years.

By the way, there are free trial versions! Check them out!

No need to wait.

Delphi Prism

I think a partial core meltdown is a pretty serious. The only reason it didn't blow up was because the concrete reactor containment was better than average, as this blog by Robert Cringely explains.
That article was linked to a slashdot story from a couple of weeks back.

I have made it a habbit of carrying a crowbar whenever I go outside, in case a resonance cascade happens nearby.

University of Copenhagen has more than that. I don't think anybody have ever thought that we needed a permanent police force on campus. Obviously the mentality is different. In my opinion the reason why this difference in mentality exists is important. It is a key factor in why USA is slowly but surely letting fear get the better of them and are handing over every freedom you have to the government in exchange for fictitious security enhancement. As I said I was in USA last year and in one of the Airports I was picked out for random security check. Although I dutifully submitted myself, I found the entire procedure laughable. The whole thing is set up to project an image of security that has no connection with reality. I think it is the same thing with campus police. You don't really need it, it's just there to provide reassurance against some imaginary threat. Of course, whenever there is a real threat, like a shooting, there is nothing you can do about it anyway.

Why do you have campus police? I mean, in Denmark we would just call the local police station (or 112) if there is a problem. Why do you need police on campus 24/7?
Along the same line, I visited Tucson last year and was shocked to see a real police officer at the super market. It looked as if he was permanently stationed there, guarding the cash register lines.

From a users perspective I found PostgreSQL harder to get started with that MySQL. I use Debian and the MySQL tools are friendlier.

There never was a real linux client and CCP had no dedicated linux developers as far as I know. It was always the Windows client wrapped in Cedega maintained by TransGaming. I believe most linux users were aware that plain Wine with the regular Windows client performed better in most cases, thus the official linux package was hardly used. Why maintain something that noone uses, right?

They still have a Mac version, but that is also the Windows client, wrapped in Cider.

No. It's a humorous fake.