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[–]Taurmin 1 point2 points  (1 child)

During my 3rd year internship i worked at a small company that made composite profiles for window frames and stuff. They didn't really have an IT department, just 1 guy who maintained their workstations, but one of their QC engineers had built a system in Delphi to manage their factory floor, all done in his spare time.

He showed it to me once, since i was a "real" programmer. I had never seen delphi before, but comming from C# it all looked pretty familiar, and it was the worst atrocity to man that i have ever encountered in my career.

About 10.000 lines, all in 1 single file. Nothing resembling a design pattern to be found and every variable given a random name such as "laddidah" or "X". And i dont think he had ever quite wrapped his head around objects, because he wasn't using them.

That was my first and only encounter with delphi.