clownvorld

> I very much preferred Borland from my days in Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++

Turbo Pascal was stunning for its time. A fully functional editor and fast compiler operating from a single 5.25 floppy, which occupied one of the two A/B drives on my university's PCs before hard disks were affordable.

But I have to admit OS/2 felt more like the "adult" OS compared with Windows. To be fair Windows had to load on top of DOS, so it didn't have the luxury of using the PC to its full extent. But still.

I hadn't thought about that, but you're right. My story probably makes little sense to non-programmers of that time.

Going deeper, most of whatever the 20th/21st century leaves for future historians may very well be indecipherable, if at all recoverable.

depends on the origin of said parachute

Well, it make dependency injection much easier in Java. But true delegation is much more, it offers a nice decoupled alternative over implementation inheritance.

Occam's razor says, no. The simpler explanation is, our reality is as it appears.

The deeper questions concern consciousness. At the core I personally don't believe actors in a simulation can have consciousness, therefore simulations have no bearing on our reality.

A static counterpart to 'this' would be nice.