Look we know that Delphi is good, or was prior to D2005, however at times
we
have to remove ourselves from this tunnel vision approach and admit that
another development environment has surfaced, is used by many more
developers than the total Delphi community, has a solid IDE and allows the
developers to be productive, rather than stuffing around with AV's before
a
single line of code is written. Or going out to lunch waiting for "Hello
World" to compile.
This is the argument used by VB classic programmers... quantity of devs
doesn't equal better. However, I think MS finally got it right or at least
good enough and then some. Now they do RAD almost as good as Delphi and
they do other things better. All my new projects are in .net and I am one
of the biggest Delphi bigots around (save for the begin/end, :=/= and crappy
case none of which was fixed in C# but ultimately are minor nitpicks).
Question is, will MS disown .net as soon as it is profitable to do so? Yep.
I know a lot of VB classic programmers that are pretty pissed about that
situation. I find it odd that five years ago it was about "can Delphi
survive" and it turns out VB was the one with the target painted on its
back.
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