[DUG] Company closing

[Jeremy Coulter]

you guys know there is a Delphi to Android tool?  You do your development in
Delphi and then compile it to apparently native android code.
Its open source now. DelphiDroid I think its called.

Jeremy

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Alistair Ward <award at forum8.co.nz> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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