I was a VB programmer before I moved over to Delphi 11 or so years ago. What annoyed me with VB, was that if you wrote an app in VB3 and were maintaining it in VB5, you had to supply the correct RunDLL for it to work. A pain in the butt. That's why Delphi was a breath of fresh air, you could deliver an exe without supplying a DLL to run it.
>I think MS finally got it right or at least >good enough and then some. I just love the XML documentation it generates for your code comments. Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cameron Cole Sent: Monday, 23 May 2005 11:15 PM To: Delphi-Talk Discussion List Subject: Re: Ignorance 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. __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
