[DUG] Delphi Specials

[Marshland Engineering]

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As a user of both Delphi 5 and D2007, you would have to be nuts to want to work in D5 if you spend any time programming.   It works, and quite well, but D2007 and later are so much nicer, and faster to do stuff.    If you value your time and are programming for anything returning money then its worth it.
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I spend possibly 200 hours a year writing specialised software for my work. 

Now it may take me 30 hours longer with an old version, but you forget  that it takes 30+ hours to learn the new bits and bugs every time I upgrade so I'm no better off. Of course I'm also several hundred dollars richer if not 1000s. 

All I have to say is Solidworks is the Delphi equivalent in CAD/CAM but I finding more and more people that I know are now using Alibre at 1/10 the price. Once someone has chosen Alibre over Solidworks, they will probably never make the change to SW in the future as the cost of change/relearn a new package/convert the data is just too high. 

If I'm not mistaken, my first Borland product was TurboPascal at $49. I remained loyal to Borland for 20 or so years in my previous programming occupation due to a $49 package.  

Cheers Wallace


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