Author Archives: Uwe Raabe

About Uwe Raabe

Addicted to Pascal/Delphi since the late 70's

“simulating a computer with an infinite amount of memory”

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Uwe Raabe

Thanks to this article by Raymond Chen we can read what garbage collection really is and (perhaps even more valuable) what it is not. I don’t want to start a new flame war about garbage collection (and even when – … Continue reading →

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A Magical Gathering – Part 2

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Uwe Raabe

From Part 1: take an enumerator, mix it with a class helper and pour it over an invokeable custom variant There it is again. What is he just talking about? Well, it took me a while to find that thing, … Continue reading →

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A Magical Gathering – Part 1

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Uwe Raabe

Sometimes combining different programming techniques reveals the hidden beauty of a programming language. A few years ago I was able to create such a thing with some older and newer language features. The outcome revealed some kind of magic that … Continue reading →

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begin

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Uwe Raabe

That’s it – a start of a new block blog. Here I will share some of my thoughts about Delphi programming, present some Delphi code (mostly mine) and publish whatever I consider worth it. Be there plenty of lines before … Continue reading →

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