[DUG] A Friday Qustion on Monday.

[Kyley Harris]

This topic of D2006 leads me to pose the following thoughts for comment.

Borland has taken big steps in aquisition to provide software for
lifecycle design and development, including memory optimization
software, leak tracking and feature tracking tools.  All these things
seem wonderful (if you can afford it). So why are there so many issues
with delphi after production release. We are trying to be sold on Unit
Testing, Memory Tracking, Bug Tracking, etc etc, with all these new
features in delphi, and the other products such as starteam, NUnit &
DUnit, and Optimizeit suites to name a few. It seems like Borlands
main marketing is in opposition to Rational for lifecycle tools,
rather than focusing on the requirements of the simple programmer
requisites. It used to be that most people thought of them without
question as the IDE and compilers of choice, but I think this is
taking a back leg to High Level tools.

I have to query weather the Delphi team is following the unit testing
and design philosophy that it is selling to us as the best thing since
sliced bread.

At the end of the day the most important thing to me is solid code,
and a good working IDE that supports my need of solid clean code, and
doesn't throw tantrums every five minutes. The brain is an excellent
tool for all the other stuff.
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Kyley Harris
Harris Software
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