In a recent blog post, Jeff Duntemann, author, editor, and publisher of countless books, articles, and magazines on Turbo Pascal and Delphi, writes about the Pascal language. A sarcastic comment of him on "that never-to-be-sufficiently-despised language Pascal" triggered a few complains, to which Jeff replied with another post, A Failure of Sarcasm. He talks about his "grudge against the dorks and flamers who waged war on my kiddie language" , complains that the "vast majority of buffer overflow exploits tormenting us these days can be traced to the unbounded string functions in the standard C library", and ends by stating that "in the realm of high-level languages, I have only one love, per omnia saecula saeculorum".

I used to subscribe to all of Jeff's magazines, from the early days of Turbo Techniques to Visual Developer, and I still have lots of copies on my shelves. I have many of Jeff's books. And he keeps proving to be a smart writer on technical stuff. By the way, in the same entry Jeff suggests CodeGear to work on Turbo Erlang. Interesting point. Better handling of parallel computing in one of the next big things. Now if I could have a "parallel Delphi"...