> It's quite capable, and probably still the fastest way to build > graphical Windows programs (with the possible exception of Visual > Basic). > > I suspect the main reason people dismiss Delphi is that they consider > Pascal a 'toy' language.
Yeah, Pascal always did get a bad rap. I enjoyed programming in Pascal and in fact used it for more than one task. I was looking at Delphi 2006 a week or two back, but Borland's off their rocker on the cost. $1050 at CDW is insane. > I think Borland let it sleep for a while, particularly after > the failure of Kylix (Delphi for Linux), but it's not dead. > Delphi 2006 has been out for a while now. > > The odd thing about all of this is that for a lot of those shareware > programs, Delphi 4 (circa 1998, iirc, and given away freely > on the cover of several computer magazine CDs a few years later) > is all that you'd ever need to build them. There is no real > incentive for many developers to ever upgrade to a newer version, > and there is probably not a lot Borland can do about that. Heh -- they could start by lowering the price. :) James To unsubscribe, send a blank message to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/c-prog/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
