Anders Hejlsberg - Tour through computing industry history at the Microsoft Museum | TheChannel9Team

Jaz
From the depths of Wales I come

hmm he pronounces it del-thigh, i always thought it was del-fee. what about everyone else.

flerlerp
flerlerp

It's actually, del-fi (long i). Delphi is a city of Phocis in mainland Greece

DadofEight
DadOfEight

Ah, the fond memories of Turbo Pascal and college Data Structures classes. This also reminded me of the geek wars I'd be part of in high school where we had the Trash-80 camp waring against the Atari camp. Days to be missed...

r_keith_hill
ktm250

I got the chance to tell Anders this at the PDC which was cool. In '85 a couple of my buddies and I worked in a PC lab on campus. In our Pascal course, we managed to convince the teacher to let us do our projects on PCs using Turbo Pascal. The rest of the class used the campus mainframe (Cyber something or other) with a crappy line editor and I'm not even sure what they used for a debugger (printf equiv?). Anyway, we smoked the rest of the class. The teacher was quite impressed with how quickly we finished our projects and the quality of the code.

Kazi
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The ancient pronunciation is: Delphoi

Delphi (Delfee) is new greek.

btw, it's a beautiful place:

http://www.culture.gr/2/21/211/21110a/e211ja01.html

I was there in 1998.

Kazi

MikeS
MikeS

This is fun: this is a repeat of a long-running debate we had back in '95 when Delphi shipped and I was on TeamB.

Delphi is a town of ancient Greece for which the correct pronunciation (according to Greeks) has a short "-ee" sound at the end, like "taxi". In the UK and the rest of Europe (as far as I know), we also pronounce it this way.

In the US, the predominant pronunciation ends in "eye". Anders pronounces it this way as well, but I think that's just because he's living there and has adopted American English.

So all of you who insist on calling it "Delph-eye", just remember when you're next looking for a cab to call out "Tax-eye! Tax-eye!" :o)

--Mike Scott

lars

This beats a video with a Bill Gates any day. Anders Hejlsberg is one of those tech icons I'd like to hear more from. I respect them more than any rock star CEO.

/Lars.