[DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer?

[David Brennan]

Correction: at the end of my last email I meant to say: I don't *DIS*agree
with your overall argument... just with some of the detail ;-)

Funny how having the wrong number of negatives completely changes a
sentences meaning!? 

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of David Brennan
Sent: Friday, 15 January 2010 5:38 p.m.
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: Re: [DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer?

I have to disagree on this:

> And I'd say that a tool that is free which you use to produce something
> which may or may not yield a return is absolutely a better investment than
a
> tool which costs a significant amount of money with the *same* potential
> return on your efforts.  Or not.
>
> It's the software you produce with the tool that will yield the return.
The
> return isn't a function of the tool cost.  It's not even, directly, a
> function of the quality and feature set of the tools.
> 
>> The apple tools are way behind other IDE's for usability and
functionality.
> 
> I suspected they might be. But then again, "usability" of a tool is not
> reflected in the quality or success of the software produced with the
tool.
> And a lot of usability can be forgiven for a "free" tag.

For most software, even small iPhone apps, by far the biggest cost is going
to be the time spent by the developers (and possibly artists etc depending
on the app). Free vs $1000 for a development tool is a factor in this but
not a huge one. If one tool is 20-30% more productive then that is likely to
easily make up that cost and more.

Hypothetically speaking if someone put out a version of Delphi which was
guaranteed to reduce development time by 50% (not likely!) then I would
happily pay 5 times or more what the current pricing is because I would
still be on a win over the course of a year or two.

> All I'm doing is pointing out what I consider to be the mistake of
thinking
> that iPhone platform support is going in some way to contribute to the
> success of a product with a Windows Enterprise Development price tag.

That said I don't agree with your overall argument... just with some of the
detail ;-)

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