Agreed. There are many corporate shops who have long-running codebases written in Delphi that works just fine.

I once had an offer for some temporary contracting on a project at a company close to here. I looked at Delphi and declined the job. Nothing wrong with Delphi, I was just not used to the tools and felt they would have better value for money with an experienced Delphi programmer.

Delphi and C++ (and LISP and Ruby and Java and Python) are good for different things. Sure, there is a lot of overlap but I would not write an FFT in LISP anymore than I would write a website backend in Assembler.

No rather than teaching my kids to eat with their hands I teach them to use proper tools, like cutlery. I can just recommend it, significantly less of a mess.

Or a problem of an arrogant nerd who thinks syntax highlighting editors is for arty-farty types

Premiere Pro and FCP on MACOS/X

And the OSS freaks forgot about things like Motion, After Effects, Logic Pro (and a very large community of audio and synth plugins) that goes with media production. Video editing is just the tip of the iceberg.

If I want a Unix box I will just use one. What is this zeal to Linuxify everything? Mac is very good at Media editing. And it IS a Unix box, and yes, I do spend most of my life on a command line.

Where the hell do you people live? I live in Germany (in a medium sized town). The local kids all walk around, ride around and they as 10-12 years old. No one cares. My kid is 5. She can't walk to kindergarten, but the kids that are 6 walk there. In a group of 2. Alone. Over a major road at that. A mile. Up a hill. In winter. No-one cares.

"the mother said she does not want the child and the father supports her".

My wife is a obstretician, we have had 2 children, I was at both births and one thing your hear from her, her colloeagues and the midwife is "Never listen to anything a woman says while she is in labor". I can attest to this :)

script type="spoken/english" would be more interesting

Damn shame, we would all be better off if PHP gets shot in the pre-title sequence

If you like wordstar, install joe on Linux. It has the same commands. Which is why, after 30 years, I am still using it to edit things when I am in a command shell. I hate Unix machines where only vi is installed. joe forever!

On my Desktop I do use sublime text and sometimes TextMate

For those interested in time travel, the inaugural meeting of the International Time Travel Association will be held at the Perimeter
Institute last Tuesday at 20:00.

Puts meaning to the old "Out of Stack Space" error

Hell, C-Cups are already enough for me!

The API is. By faaaaaaaaaar the most work is going to be to learn all the NS_xxx classes and how you write and plug together an IOS app. The language on which this is built is small in comparison. The libraries and APIs and things that you manipulate is where the action is.

Same goes for Java. the Java APIs are waay more work than Java, the language. If you learn Groovy or Clujure, which both run on the Java platform, you still need to learn the APIs or you won't achieve much.

And so on for Ruby and any other language.

That said, I would shoot for Swift if I was a beginnner.

No, Java was very heavily influenced by RoR. Before DHH said "Screw Java" J2EE was a seriously bad, complex mess. After lots of people went to RoR because it is such a PITA to write J2Ee (I was one) a lot of simplyfying went into J2EE which improved it.

I would agree on that.