[DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer?

[David Brennan]

Yes, you are correct.

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Sent: Sunday, 17 January 2010 6:30 p.m.
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I am not sure that you don't mean the opposite to what you haven't said?

2010/1/16 David Brennan <dugdavid at dbsolutions.co.nz>:
> 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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