[DUG] A Friday Qustion on Monday.

[Conor Boyd]

This was something that used to amuse me about some of the Rational tools.

The way Rational used to push the RUP and Rational tools as the only way to
develop software failed to ring true for me, when we noticed that some of
the errors we were getting with one of their tools was coming from an
application that was obviously written in a language (Smalltalk, maybe, I
can't quite remember) that was not supported by any of the Rational tools.

It just caused to question the validity of their stance, given that they
obviously weren't using any of their own tools to develop some of their own
software. ;-)

Cheers,

C.

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
Behalf Of 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.