I agree with Mike. One of the main reasons I chose to use Delphi for commercial software development is that the language is Pascal, the first ANSI standard computer language.
What a lot of people miss about .NET, Java, ColdFusion, and a host of other solutions, is that they are proprietary. That, by itself, is not a _bad_ thing, but in a computer language, the lack of an industry standard leaves you in a dangerous position. Good programming practices result in a lot of reusable code in the form libraries, components, or objects. If you write software for a living long enough, and do it the right way, you will soon accumulate libraries that would take years to rewrite in another language. An ANSI standard language is very likely to have viable alternatives, both free and commercial, simply because anyone can write a Pascal compiler without paying license fees or getting anyone else's approval to do so. Remember when MS came out with J++? Sun did not like the way that MS tried to change the language and sued. The result was that MS was required to pull J++ from the market. As I recall, C# came along shortly after that. These kinds of impediments can ultimately kill a language in the long run, regardless of how successfully it competes now. I have Pascal code that I wrote in 1982 for UCSD Pascal which ran fine with little or no change on Turbo Pascal 1.0, and compile today in Delphi. That is what language standards are all about. Glenn Lawler www.incodesystems.com -----Original Message----- From: =?iso-8859-2?q?Micha=B3_Wo=BCniak?= [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 4:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [delphi-en] Delphi and where it's going > I've used Delphi since the year it was released and have used nothing > else for serious production work since that time (though I've studied > any number of alternatives). I totally agree it is the best Win32 > development tool around. I know I will be repeating myself here, but have you given Lazarus a try? I know "OpenSource" sounds "not seriouss stuff", but I am sure that that is changing fast and that Lazarus has some great potential - and has it right now. By the way, it seems both scary and entertaining to watch how people ignore some good and cheap (free?) solutions just because they're cheap/free ("nah, a cheap/free thing can't be good") - vide Lazarus, FPC, Linux, Apache, the list is as long as it gets. Cheers Mike ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/i7folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ <*> 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/
