[DUG] More Delphi news...

[James Sugrue]

>The world is not black and white. Plenty of "C" people can see the
>benefits in a readable, more-readily maintainable language with a
>rich component base - provided its performance and reliability is up
>there.

>The trick is to get more of them to try it in the first place, if
>it's to become a developer-driven language again. Maybe Borland or
>DevCo have some ideas in that direction.

Yeah, fair call. I'll rephrase - I personally find C/Java style syntax much
more readable and maintainable than Pascal style syntax and the majority of
C/Java programmers I know would agree.

For me Delphi was never about the syntax - I much prefer C Style as I have
stated - it was about the VCL, ease of use, no dll hell and the developer
community.

My point I guess is other platforms have caught up and at the moment Delphi
isn't different/better enough now to say to developers on those other
platforms - "Hey look at how quickly/easily I can do this in Delphi compared
to x". I think Borland is completely to blame - they dropped the ball. They
let Delphi stagnate over the last few years and a lot of Delphi people
switched to other languages. You just have to look at the names on the .NET
list group to see that. A fair chunk have come from here.

Maybe DevCo can turn this around - time will tell.