This is just a "because I wanted to" project. And I get that; done a lot of those myself just to understand what the hell was going on. But the rewrite of turbo vision into FPC and compiling to half a dozen targets has been around for 20 years. Turbo vision is probably the best text mode windowing library in existence. The cool fun kicks in when you can map a whole text screen to an array like so: var Screen: Array[1..80,1..25] Of Byte Absolute $B800; // or something like that as i recall

What turbo vision brought to the game was movable, (non) modal windows. Basically a lot of rewriting that array in a loop. Pretty snappy. I made a shitload of money with that library.

I can't help but feel that Git has completely missed the forest through the trees that you can make a 30+ part guide explaining how to use it.

pre internet, your name, address, and phone number would published in the widely distributed telephone book.

if you were a big celebrity, you could get an "unlisted" number (I think you had to pay for it), but that was relatively rare.

you might recall, the opening of the original Terminator film (1984, same time period) hinges on this idea: the robot has a name and a city, he tears that page out of a phone book in a phone booth, and starts visiting the addresses one by one.

it's how we all lived (minus the killer robot), and it didn't seem strange at all. Women who lived alone frequently would have just their first initial instead of name, but that was not for fear of "stalkers", it was for fear of potential "heavy breathing" annoyance calls late at night.

How do you compile that on a new platform?

Been programming over 30 years, since I was 8 years old and my dad’s coworker gave me his old BASIC programming books and I was hooked.

I have always found programming easy, and still do. It is just fun, and I still love learning new languages and tools and paradigms. It is still my favorite hobby.

However, WORK is hard. Dealing with office politics and changing priorities and bad leadership and meetings and TPS reports and JIRA tickets and new HR processes every year and mergers and acquisitions and new mandates to switch everything to a different system and all the other corporate bullshit is why they have to pay me so much.

The problem is "rental" is already taken for things like 3-day or 7-day or whatever rentals. Reusing the term would cause even greater confusion.

"Buy license" or "License" (as a verb, although it's ambiguous in English) is more accurate... but that still doesn't tell you any of the fine print, so I'm not sure it does any good at all. (After all, anyone who cares at all about this stuff already knows it's a license, and doesn't need to be told.)

In a case like this, how the heck are you supposed to know that whether or not your license continues is dependent upon whether or not Sony and Warner Bros. can come to an agreement to renew it?

Plot twist: he didn't travel the world to discover new species and advance science, but just to try new flavors and eat strange animals