[DUG] Embarcadero article

[Phil Scadden]

> I have never understood the fanatical hatred of garbage collection that some Delphi developers have 
Its horses for courses. For predominantly UI based programming, speed is 
no issue and GC fine. - and for that matter C# very fine. Combinations 
of large, complex datastructure and cpu intensive calculation (solve a 
PDE) and GC seems to really slow things done. Maybe its the threading 
model in combination, I dont know.
That said, its a few years since seriously experimented. Faced with 
multi-platform, 64bit, MPI, all that kind of coding moved to C++ and VS. 
Coding is a pain compared to Delphi but VS has some very nice features 
for debugging in this environment. Virgin UI programs get done in either 
C# or web/js. Component libraries is what delphi programming going. Got 
a whole lot of stuff that I dont have C++ or C# that's remotely as 
capable (same argument keeps the Fortran going too).
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Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, 
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