> APL does have a certain geek appeal, but the weirdness of its > right-to-left evaluation order makes the character set issues look trivial.
Oh, I forgot about that, I was never totally comfortable with RPN even. At one point Borland was selling a a "Professional" (read limited) version of Delphi 3 at $99 for the academic version, if you had a student ID card. I used that at my last job (at a college) until 2009. I've used bootleg copies of later versions but they mostly didn't have any particular advantage, except maybe for some database stuff. Add the free 3rd party Internet Component Suite and 3 Pro was perfectly useful. I've used Visual Basic and Visual C++, but the Borland stuff was better. My test case was to make a simple image viewer by drag and dropping things on a form and only needing to write 3 lines of code. Lazarus can also do that. No mucking around with signals and all that, it gets done automatically. Not in Microsoft's stuff. Wikipedia picked up on some of this stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_%28programming_language%29 And to get back to the original post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_Display_Power_Management_Signaling That was possibly where I got the idea that killing both H and V sync pulses should turn the monitor off. Doesn't work in my case though. I can make it stay on, but not turn it off, including the backlight. Simple enough to push one power button on the monitor though.
