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Delphi has been dead for 10+ years. Nobody uses it except for a few legacy applications and licenses cost $1200+.

> missing the real problem that your developers are probably using their home gaming PC for work because it's 10x faster than the garbage you gave them.

> Yes, this happens. All the time. You just don't know because you made the perfect the enemy of the good.

That only happens in cowboy coding startups.

In places where security matters (e.g. fintech jobs), they just lock down your PC (no admin rights), encrypt the storage and part of your VPN credentials will be on a part of your storage that you can't access.

How can you do quality assurance on code no one can understand?

Didn't you still rely on the DOS HAL (by using system libraries)? The C IDEs came with a lot of graphics util libraries too (e.g. Turbo C).

Another thing to consider is availability: many companies don't even allow powershell for dev users.

IMHO Java's official documentation is quite decent as well.

You can say the same thing about workers' rights and environmental protection laws too. Progress shouldn't be taken for granted.

We have expert systems, theorem provers and planners but OP probably didn't mean this.

> A lot of what you say is true for doctors in their first 5-10 years into their career, when employed in a hospital.

Then it's just semi-official hazing. It's still something that should be fixed.

Yeah, but back then you had to pay $600+ for a C compiler.

In my experience MySql is more popular. Worked at several companies that used MySql, none that used Postgres.

Kids at universities still use XAMMP to learn databases.

Link is broken for me (404).

Maybe we should teach Prolog/CLP and PDDL to LLMs. Unfortunately the training set would be too small.

It would be cool to have logic based modeling jobs, even if the goal is just to feed the LLMs.

Building your mobile home on rented land.

Depending on jurisdiction an employer might be obligated to announce a mass lay-off in advance. It gives more time for people to look for another job.

In a language with tail-call optimization, it won't.

Do janitors find their job enjoyable and fulfilling? Probably not. Their job is still important for the functioning of society, so I wouldn't call it bullshit.

> 2. Commutativity. Order of predicates does not change the result. Finally, true logic programming!

I'm not sure this is a good selling point. The fact that predicate order matters in Prolog allows performance optimization and more transparent debugging.

Their theoretical expressive power are the same, they're both turing complete languages. However their practical expressive power is different that comes from language ergonomics, standard libraries and different default optimizations.

SQL doesn't have homoiconic structure like Prolog or Lisp, which would facilitate metaprogramming.

Prolog and Lisp were derived from first principles, SQL was designed to be a language that reads similar to English (i.e. easy to learn for non-programmers).

Prolog and Lisp also has the concept of "atom" which can represent many things, but in parsing it's used for terminal symbols.

Prolog has the advantage over Lisp that you can define custom operators and their precedence, so you can create easy to read domain specific languages without excessive amounts of parentheses.

The built-in backtracking can also be useful for parsing.

Definite Clause Grammer rules are also a standard feature, which is very similar to the Backus-Naur form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definite_clause_grammar

No, you can do the same in math. It just means ignoring the proofs and just using the theorems as they are. However sometimes the application and proof requires similar ways of thinking, and you kind of miss out by skipping the proof. But the same can be occasionally true for software engineering.

> You can not navigate the comment section.

You're basically forced to hold control down, because expanding a comment might cause a page load, and the back button won't bring you where you originally were.

> Casual users can play with the open models without much difficulty either, provided they take a few hours to work through an installation tutorial

That can be quite a barrier for entry for non-powerusers. I wouldn't underestimate serving casual users, considering that the alternative is OSS i.e. giving your shit away for free.

GPT-3 is opensource. GPT-4 isn't.

https://github.com/openai/gpt-3

Crypto has created no useful products yet, unlike AI. I don't know how can you even mention them on the same page.

Public key cryptography was invented in the 70s, commercialized in the 80s.

In machine learning we already had back-propagation in the 1970, but had to wait another 40 years for Intel and Nvidia to create ever more powerful processors to tackle useful problems.

That would doom LLMs to mediocrity, which is great news for creative people.

And that's when work from home will be abolished by that company, and AI will be banned from the company network.

I prefer JEdit to Emacs for a programmable editor, but I mostly just use IntelliJ anyway. JEdit carries the philosophy of Emacs, but the UI isn't stuck in the 70s.

I think it's better as a demonstration of the difficulty of creating a comprehensive specification.