[DUG] A Friday Qustion on Monday.

[Matt Comb]

Agree totally.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kyley Harris" <kyleyharris at gmail.com>
To: "Delphi List" <delphi at ns3.123.co.nz>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 5:25 PM
Subject: [DUG] A Friday Qustion on Monday.


> 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.
> -- 
> Kyley Harris
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