[DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero

[Phil Scadden]

The big thing with Delphi was that was just about as powerful as C++ but 
lot easier to use and the IDE was brilliant compared to anything else 
out there when it came out. I still have VS 1998 (for Fortran) as a 
comparison to "state of the art" then. Trouble is MS got Borland's man 
and now VS is state of the art. And C# kicks ass for many things. Delphi 
is heading into legacy for me - I can do things very quickly and have 
huge code base but start another major in it? Hmm. It used to be the 
numerical analysis code was in Fortran so translate to c++ or translate 
to Delphi was about even. Now all that codebase is there in C++. Those 
years when they decided on niche high profit instead of mass market, 
concentrate on delphi may have made an irretrievable hole. I do so much 
JS/Java now, that I find going back to begin..end, 
interface/implimentation a bit of a chore. Sure there are some 
advantages - but are they worth it?


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