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it is in the hands of Mr. Gates. Damn Microsoft, Damn Billy
Reminds me of the utter fiasco at the company I was working for as a consultant during Y2K. We had the Isreali developers of their "magic" tool spending night after night after night trying to get it to work for us. In the end it was abandoned, as it did not work, at all!
That's why I use Virtual Pascal 2.1.279 (dead since 2004 or so) and WinRAR 4.2. It's likely that XY 20.90.0500 will be my last ever version, on W7 Pro!John_C wrote: ↑09 Apr 2020 15:42 Yes, XY is created on the dead language, but this is what I like about it.
See Vim, Emacs, Unix utils, Windows command prompt. All this software is very old, sometimes isn't very easy to use, and have some limitations. However, this software have great advantage: it just works. It worked 20 years ago and it will work the next 20 years.
Compare it with typical .NET app. (I will call it <Foo>.) It's like:
Hey, you have .NET 4.1. To use the Foo app, you need to download .NET 5.3. Hey, you said you have Windows 7... In such a case you will not be able to install 5.3, sorry...Also, what about testing new versions when reporting bugs? Currently, to report a bug, I download a portable version, check the bug, and then return to my current version. I'm not sure .NET apps can be used in such a way, i.e. without installation.Hey, you have .NET 5.2 and want to install an older version of the Foo app? In such a case you need to downgrade your .NET to 3.2. Hey, you said you have another apps on your PC that requiring 5.2? It's not my problem dude. And by the way, version 3.2 was removed from Microsoft website and no, you willn't be able to download it from archive.org.
You're one of the very few software vendors I trust when making such a statement.
Probably not many here, who see it your way, but I am one of them.