{"id":1919,"date":"2013-10-15T15:52:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T03:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2013-10-15T15:56:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T03:56:17","slug":"unintentional-significance-of-pop-culture-references","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/1919\/","title":{"rendered":"(Unintentional?) Significance of Pop Culture References"},"content":{"rendered":"[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span>

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I don’t watch the show in question myself though I did enjoy the “The Walken Dead<\/a>” 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.<\/p>\n

Quite apart from the shockingly clumsy segu\u00e9 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<\/strong> was in any way a “precursor<\/em> of FireMonkey<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

Maybe in the same sense that Btrieve<\/strong> was the precursor to DB2<\/strong>. I mean they’re both databases and Btrieve came before DB2, right ? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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 …<\/p>\n

… other long-dead IT luminaries such as OS\/2 Warp …<\/p>\n

… in a show that specifically references …<\/p>\n

… the WALKING DEAD<\/strong> !<\/p>\n

Maybe Delphi isn’t dead. But being undead<\/strong> isn’t much consolation. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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