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Delphi dcc64 compiler engineer Yooichi Tagawa now on twitter as YooichiTagawa

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/20

Thanks to this thread, which regrettably has vanished from the Embarcadero Forums server*, I learned that Yooichi Tagawa (also known in the Delphi world as [Wayback/Archive] Tagawa-San)  got himself a Twitter account named [Wayback/Archive] YooichiTagawa.

Boy didn’t I know he was involved (dead link, alive at WayBack and on Archive.is) at the end of the 80s with the [Wayback] UNIX and [Wayback/Archive] VAX/VMS versions of [Wayback/Archive] LHa/LHarc during my university years. From the last link:

Upstream Authors:

LHarc 0.01-1.00: Yooichi Tagawa (LHa code taken from here, 1988-1989) Nikkei-mix ID: y.tagawa (Now this is defunct BBS, Licensing term in manual page come from his licence for lharc) His new web page seems to be www2s.biglibe.ne.jp/~yex/ yooedit2001@yahoo.co.jp is the contact e-mail address for another software. Page updated at least July/2001

LHa 0.01-1.00: Masaru Oki (LHa original author, 1991-1992) E-Mail address: oki@netbsd.org

Trivia: [Wayback/Archive] Years ago, he entered the team as a localization engineer.

Some LHARC history dating back to 1988:

[Wayback/Archive] Availability heuristic. I think your perspective may be warped by two things: no… | Hacker News (2014):

One of the most capable engineers I’ve ever worked with is a guy called Yooichi Tagawa. The guy has an incredible appetite for complexity, as well as spooling up on old codebases and new technologies. But you’ll find very little by him online, both because he’s Japanese and doesn’t use English often, and also he’s squirrelled away inside Embarcadero, working on Delphi compiler as he’s been doing for the past 15 years or so.

Edit 20230619

Added archived links, information from Barry Kelly (barrkel)  and remarks about vanishing information.

  • I really wish Embarcadero had and has more sense of keeping historic material available (possibly in archived form). On the one hand they keep boasting that their products are of historic importance (they are), but on the other hand they have plainly giving up on keeping information up (or have it archived at the Internet Archive): forums server, blog server, docwiki.

I wonder how long Delphi 7, 2007 and 2009 HTML documentation on the HTML [Wayback/Archive] RAD Studio Product Documentation – Embarcadero Technologies server will stay available. That page lists most products since Delphi 7 but from Delphi 2010 on, none of the Wiki links still produce the documentation for that specific version hampering for instance maintainers of legacy systems: the products still work (hell would break loose when the license servers stopped supporting legacy versions!), but the built in links to the Wiki produce no or different information.

–jeroen

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Let me google that for you

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/27

Brilliant: Let me google that for you.

–jeroen

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Petzold Book Blog – Dear EarthLink Customer Support

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/01/14

It seems that IT problems are not limited to large corportations, or are they?
Charles Petzold (not only of  “Windows Programming” fame) recently got his charlespetzold.com domain  hijacked by his former ISP.

So if his web-site looks like an earthlink advertisement, just load his web-site by IP-address (http://140.174.69.91/).

He wrote an hilarious blog entry about this: Petzold Book Blog – Dear EarthLink Customer Support.

All of his material (both computer and other stuff) is recommended reading.

–jeroen

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Ancient history – found back one of my earliest email messages dated in februari 1989!

Posted by jpluimers on 2009/10/12

Edit 20260223: added the e-mail header, relay mapping of e-mail addresses explanation and some archived links where needed, and some current links where the originals suffered from link rot.

I found back one of (the original Dutch link died, but is archived [Wayback/Archive] my earliest mail messages) [Wayback/Archive] my earliest mail messages: it is dated back in februari 1989.

Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 09:07 N
From: <PCHPAPL%HLERUL52.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: TurboC list

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