Michael Swindell apparently didn’t realise the risk he was taking by pointing out that some Delphi books had been featured in a popular TV program.
I don’t watch the show in question myself though I did enjoy the “The Walken Dead” spoof, but I understand it is very popular. I suspect it is this popularity that Michael was dazzled by and/or hoping to dazzle people with by association with Delphi.
Quite apart from the shockingly clumsy segué into the boiler-plate multi-platform marketing spiel, I wonder how anyone with any knowledge of the two could bring themselves to say (with a straight face at least) that OWL was in any way a “precursor of FireMonkey“.
Maybe in the same sense that Btrieve was the precursor to DB2. I mean they’re both databases and Btrieve came before DB2, right ? 🙂
But that aside, he appears to have missed the potential meaning that could be interpreted from Delphi books appearing on a shelf alongside other books about …
… other long-dead IT luminaries such as OS/2 Warp …
… in a show that specifically references …
… the WALKING DEAD !
Maybe Delphi isn’t dead. But being undead isn’t much consolation. 😀
Thank you, I had the same thoughts right away. I think some of the “evangelists” are rather out of touch with how things are perceived outside of the bubble they operate in. I posted some comparisons on the Embarcadero forum, including how in the last season a character lost an eye and another a foot, while Delphi charges an arm and a leg. 🙂
It looks like the set designer raided a garage or library sale of books someone was getting rid of all published <= 1997.
For fans of the show, just being there, even as a zombie, is a G R E A T thing. On your case, you cant relate with it, nor understand it, so it will be like me trying to talk on how bad Oxygene is or how good of a developer you are.
It’s sad Breaking Bad has ended. I’d like to see Jesse Pinkman saying “It’s Firemonkey Framework, Bitch”
Take it with humor.
So, somebody else noticed the OS/2 Warp book there.
yes, everybody at Emba sticking his finger out of their bubble had to be obliged to get marketing communication curses, and this a lot.
Yes, this is a catastrophy at Emba. The tools are a lot better then the marketing communication, they dont deserve this
Heh, my thoughts exactly. Actually, my first thought was “that’s one sad collection of books”…