[DUG] [OFF-TOPIC]:What ever happened to?

[Richard Vowles]

Hi Paul,

The Helper classes were created to allow the VCL to sit on top of the
.NET framework giving Delphi programmers something Microsoft .NET
developers could not have - a large degree of interoperability between
their Win32 and .NET code base.  

Delphi does not require the Helper classes to "do what C# does". Borland
"owns" the language and could do anything they wanted with it. See here
for stuff C# cannot do:
http://blogs.borland.com/dcc/archive/2005/06/22/12931.aspx

Richard

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-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
On Behalf Of Paul McKenzie
Sent: Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:52 a.m.
To: rohit at cfl.co.nz; NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC]:What ever happened to?

Sure have - did not impress, just Delphi doing .Net nothing to make
Delphi shine-out over C# (having helper classes to try and do the thing
C# does does not inspire faith...). Remember when Delphi started, and
until recently, compare Delphi to the competitors C++, VB, Visual-C,
etc. and Delphi Shone-out as being far far superior - IMHO the same
cannot be said any more :-(

Regards
Paul McKenzie
Wellington
New Zealand


Rohit Gupta wrote:
> So you havent tried D2005 then ?
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> It's a case of moving over to the dot.net.nz group (ie C#). Sad but 
> IMHO Delphi is in its death throws - We only use it for legacy stuff
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> 
> James Sugrue wrote:
> 
>>G'day all.
>>
>> 
>>
>>I was for one reason or another browsing through the mail archive last

>>night.
>>
>> 
>>
>>Brought back some memories of my first official Delphi job. I had 
>>heaps of questions - way back in '99/00. Most of which I would find
trivial today.
>>
>> 
>>
>>Anyway, looking through the list I came across some names from the old

>>days I had forgotten.
>>
>> 
>>
>>Anyone know whatever happened to (and if they are still on the list):
>>
>> 
>>
>>Nello, Nic Wise (although I see him over at dot.net.nz quite a bit), 
>>Peter Hyde, Mark Derricut, Bevan Edwards?
>>
>> 
>>
>>I see some names still lurking around Jeremy(s), Nev, Mark Howard, 
>>Paul Mc, Nahum and a few others.
>>
>> 
>>
>>I'm not quite as active in the Delphi community as I was back then, 
>>you guys above still are?
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