Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Ultra Fractal and Delphi
Wow. Pretty pictures. These were created using Ultra Fractal. I downloaded an evaluation copy and played with it for a while. I don't have the patience to do anything really cool with UF but exploring is fun. It's pretty easy to generate something for a screen background.
I looked at UF a little more carefully and discovered that it's written in Delphi, a Pascal derivative with OO extensions. I've never written anything in Delphi. The last time I wrote anything in Pascal was on an Apollo workstation in Apollo Pascal. It had lots of extensions over the base language. All serious Pascal compilers had to support extensions since the base language was really just for teaching programming, not for writing "real" code. For people who couldn't stomach C/C++, Pascal was a reasonable alternative, albeit with lots of different dialects. Funny thing is, Anders Hejlsberg who helped create Turbo Pascal and Delphi at Borland was the creator of C# at Microsoft (which is clearly in the C/C++ camp -- as is Java).
(Ultra Fractals link via Metafilter)
I looked at UF a little more carefully and discovered that it's written in Delphi, a Pascal derivative with OO extensions. I've never written anything in Delphi. The last time I wrote anything in Pascal was on an Apollo workstation in Apollo Pascal. It had lots of extensions over the base language. All serious Pascal compilers had to support extensions since the base language was really just for teaching programming, not for writing "real" code. For people who couldn't stomach C/C++, Pascal was a reasonable alternative, albeit with lots of different dialects. Funny thing is, Anders Hejlsberg who helped create Turbo Pascal and Delphi at Borland was the creator of C# at Microsoft (which is clearly in the C/C++ camp -- as is Java).
(Ultra Fractals link via Metafilter)
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