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<DIV><SPAN class=196335704-26082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Yeah,
they get all </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=196335704-26082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>"Now
this is what we call "OBJECT ORIENTATION" don't be scared, its not that tricky
once you get the hang of it"</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=196335704-26082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=196335704-26082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Man, I
remember being stunned when I found a "goto" in some Delphi code and
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=196335704-26082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>VB
code gets riddled with them.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=196335704-26082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
always wanna do some "POKE"'s to go with them :)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=196335704-26082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=196335704-26082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The
idea of training kinda makes me nervous : first Delphi project, first ever
day at work, the </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=196335704-26082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>dude
showing me did a build all and up came 120,000 lines of code : about 1000 times
as many</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=196335704-26082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>lines
as I'd ever seen. I damn near got </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=196335704-26082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>up and walked out
the door then and there :)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=196335704-26082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=196335704-26082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>But x
(5,6,7?) years later you realise 120k in Delphi is probably about as 1/2 or
1/3 as complex as </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=196335704-26082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>anything else that size. Damn, 120k of *bad* Delphi is probaby 1/2 the
complexity of </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=196335704-26082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>50k
*well written* of anything else. (And : pfft 120k !!!)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=196335704-26082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=196335704-26082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Ah,
well, never realised how much I'd miss strict
typing...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=196335704-26082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=196335704-26082004></SPAN><SPAN
class=196335704-26082004></SPAN><SPAN class=196335704-26082004><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Cheers, Kurt.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Jeremy Coulter
[mailto:vss@vss.co.nz]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, 25 August 2004 4:48
p.m.<BR><B>To:</B> delphi@delphi.org.nz<BR><B>Subject:</B> [DUG]
.NEt<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=828394304-25082004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi all. Doing a
VB.NET course this week so we can get a handle on .NET, but there has been so
far 3 days of seeing how VB.NET hangs togeither...eeeek...tomorrow on is the
.Net stuff. FINALLY !!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=828394304-25082004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=828394304-25082004><FONT face=Arial size=2>One one comment
about VB.NET is, its good to see VB has finally caught up to Delphi
1......hahahahaha....Seriously, its prob. very flash to VB 6 developers, but
when the features they taut as "New" have been in Delphi for years, its VERY
hard to get excited. in fact, I am bored as hell most of the time. But we are
doing usfull stuff tomrorrow and friday so hopfully the $3500 my work is
spending for me to learn .NET is going to pay off !</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=828394304-25082004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=828394304-25082004><FONT face=Arial
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