[DUG] More Delphi news...

[Phil Scadden]

I am pretty nervous about the article too. I have eclipse - its got its nice
bits but it doesn't let me write Object pascal. And I would have to say that
D2006 is much nicer as an IDE. What I DONT do is spend money on all
the little AML tools that Borland thinks we should be using. Why? because
open source stuff does all I need in that direction. Where would Delphi
be if Borland had invested in the tools and language instead of all this
other crap. No.. must not get started on this..doesnt do any good and no
one in Borland is listening.

D2006 is actually getting me writing more stuff in Delphi but I am certainly
watching what happens else where. The pain of it is that I have to use
C or Fortran for MPI cluster stuff. Java is slowly getting there but still has
some major performance hurdles that I cant accept. Where it will end, I dont
know. I'm not moving to .net and still really looking for a substitute for C++
which is what I use Delphi for. One that compile with MPI binding on linux
would be nice too.


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