[DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer?

[Jeremy North]

Delphi 3 with heaps more bugs and unimplemented functionality.

Been using freepascal and the ide on OSX for some blaise articles,
interesting experience.


On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:16 AM, PDS - John <john at padasy.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi Leigh
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> Just like which version of Delphi?
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> John
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> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
> Behalf Of Leigh Wanstead
> Sent: Thursday, 14 January 2010 10:05 a.m.
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> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: Re: [DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer?
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> I downloaded free Pascal and free ide and make a simple test application. It
> seems it just like Delphi ;-)
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> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
> Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 January 2010 4:27 p.m.
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: Re: [DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer?
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> apparently FreePascal does iPhone stuff now. I saw tehy released a new
> version withing the last week or 2, and it mentioned iPhones as being
> supported now.
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> Jeremy
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> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:15 PM, John Bird <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz>
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>> 1. Still maintaining Delphi code?
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> Yes
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>> 2. Started a new Delphi project in the last year?
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> Yes 2 or 3
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>> 3. Started a new project in another language in the last year (what was
>> the language)?
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> No - well HTML
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>> 4. What other languages are you using learning?
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> Considering PHP or Ruby for Rails.
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> I want to wait and see if there is a posibility to compile Delphi for iPhone
> and/or Android.   If  Embarcadero are smart enough to jump into that hugely
> growing niche and it eventuates then Delphi could be a killer language
> again.   Neither of those platforms are likely to see .NET anytime soon and
> are likely to be the biggest development areas over the next 10 years.
> Likely to start killing Windows too.
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> Thats a prediction, as I saw minicomputers killed by the PC in the 90's
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> John
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