[DUG] Company closing

[Alistair Ward]

On 29/11/2010 10:09 a.m., Alister Christie wrote:
> I've been learning a bit of Android/Java lately as I need to write a
> fairly small database application, and have been frustrated about how
> much I need to know to able to achieve even fairly simple tasks.  I did
> some C# / Compact Framework work a few years ago, but I seem to remember
> that being a bit easier going.
>
> And this is my round-a-bout way of asking, how hard do you think it is
> for someone to learn Delphi?
>
> I started programming in Delphi 3, back when things were simple (crap -
> am I saying "things were simpler in my day...."), and from time to time
> I play catchup with many of the new technologies (Currently have half an
> android application talking to a REST server written in Delphi using
> JSON), so only learning a bit at a time.  But Delphi is now huge, where
> would one start?
>
> Alister Christie
> Computers for People
> Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
> http://www.salespartner.co.nz
> PO Box 13085
> Johnsonville
> Wellington

Hi,

I'm firmly of the belief that for a good developer the toolset being 
used is irrelevant. A person with the right background and fundamental 
skills can pick up any programming language/environment in relatively 
short order.

(For a not-so-good developer you could probably also say the toolset is 
irrelevant - I've heard it said you can write Fortran in any language :-)  )

I picked up Delphi (v2) very quickly, coming from a previous background 
of C and C++, although I had done a lot of Pascal at university. I have 
to say that I'm not looking forward to going back to curly braces...

Cheers,
Alistair Ward.