[DUG] More Delphi news...

[Leigh Wanstead]

I don't like {}

I love begin...end

It is easy to read. ;-)

Regards
Leigh
www.smootharm.com

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz
[mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]On Behalf Of Phil Scadden
Sent: Friday, 28 April 2006 10:31 a.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: RE: [DUG] More Delphi news...


> 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.

Amazing. The only thing I like in C syntax is the {} instead of the
endless begin end. Add overloaded operators, macros, and wretched
operator shorthands and you can really go for unreadable stuff without
even trying. The only reason I think you could call C/java more readable
is being what you are used to. And maintainable?? Seriously??

Whoops, this is heading into language rwars.

>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.

I strongly agee with this statement though. Investment in AML instead
of Delphi may have been fatal.

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