[DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer?

[Paul A Norman]

">Considering PHP or Ruby for Rails."

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paul

2010/1/12 John Bird <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz>:
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>> 1. Still maintaining Delphi code?
> Yes
>
>> 2. Started a new Delphi project in the last year?
> Yes 2 or 3
>
>> 3. Started a new project in another language in the last year (what was
>> the language)?
>
> No - well HTML
>
>> 4. What other languages are you using learning?
>
> Considering PHP or Ruby for Rails.
>
> 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.
>
> Thats a prediction, as I saw minicomputers killed by the PC in the 90's
>
>
> John
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