[DUG] More Delphi news...

[Maurice Butler]

Hi,
That is why I moved to tp after being the boy on a project in c++ and I
isolated the problem to a module and asked for assistence in debugging it
and the answer - the standard at the time - was  don't waste time debugging
have a quick look and rewrite - after weeks af rewriting modules I was sick
of it - not being able follow someone else code unless the documentation in
the code was 3 to 4 times the size of code then it was fesable to find the
problem. Knowing how good pascal was at self documenting it was looking
forward to the end of that project.

Maurice

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
Behalf Of James Sugrue
Sent: Friday, 28 April 2006 9:27 a.m.
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: RE: [DUG] More Delphi news...


While I agree with your sentiment, you aren't going to get "C" people to use
Pascal. They hate the Pascal style syntax, and the fact that you need to
declare all variables first etc.

-----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 9:08 a.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: RE: [DUG] More Delphi news...

> C#/2.0 is better. That is an unfortunate fact. By the time Delphi 
> catches
up
> to 2.0 Visual Studio will probably be at Orcas and .NET 3.0 and 
> believe me some of the features of 3.0 are show stoppers for any IDE 
> that isn't using

Delphi could compete with C++ for performance. C# is competing with Java.
Its seems that get speed out of it you have to go to UNSAFE and then why
arent you using C++? When Delphi started seeing itself as a competitor for
VB rather C++, that's when rot set it. For me personally, I HATE C++. I'm
rotten at it and takes forever to find all the bugs. On other hand, what I
write is often performance-sensitive and trying to escape from Fortran.
Delphi is an alternative but somewhat platform limited. Would be great as
someone said if could get OSX/Windows/Unix capability. 

In past crossplatform has been hampered with the ideal of cross-platform
GUI. Now this is a worthwhile holy grail I agree. However, access to native
libraries and platform-compiling only is a great first step.


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Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences
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Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232

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