>> Anyhoo, much as I hate to say it, Microsoft has made noises that >> the Win API is on the way out and .NET is the future, so standard >> Delphi's viable lifetime may be limited.
> Come on! > Do you really think everything Microsoft said is true? > Remember COM, ActiveX, OLE, Java and other Micro$oft thingy? > Every time, Microsoft said it will be something that will change the > world. > Today most of the software is still writen under a real compiler using API > or ASM. .Net will change the API, but it will take quite a while... well beyond Longhorn or as I call it Windows 2010 or Windows XP 2007. I know people who still write and sell COBOL apps 20 years later... don't think the standard windows API is going anywhere in the next decade. However, the .net structure is definately a better structure and eventually will be the better system rather than just the hot new system. Good news is Borland has been king on adapting changes into Delphi. It has to suck to be a "VB Classic" programmer with a sucky upgrade path right now. > This dotNIET is just Microsoft revenge for Java story. > Personally, in this moment, I don't want to waste few hundret of MB to > install dotNet, to...what? > Actually I didn't found a software (until now) that will require dotNiet. This is a very reasonable statement. I always wonder why companies constantly rewrite software to use cutting edge technology when the app will do the exact same thing it did before in the same way. I think a lot of developers are more interested in keeping the resume current than answering the right technology questions. What advantage does a C# rewrite offer the company I work for? Most of the time, cutting edge cuts both ways and pioneering is not cost effective. I can still whip out apps that are more solid, proven and faster than I can in .net. This is mainly due to the proven nature of Delphi as opposed to the instability of a new development environment. Let others bleed... I will learn from their mistakes. However eventually, I feel .Net will surpass Delphi and it probably isn't that far off either. IMO, .Net is the first MS development environment that is competitive when it comes to churning out enterprise level apps quickly. In time with MS backing, it could be what VB should have always been. > Image really good softwares like TotalCommander, Netscape, Mozilla, > Partition Magic, Norton, 3D > Max, Photoshop, PaintShopPro, running under dotNet. > I don't think they will switch to soon to dotNiet. I love Total Commander. I use few apps on a daily basis and this is without a doubt the top of my must have software list. It started with Norton Commander for me, but IMO Total Commander (I still call it Windows Commander) is the best utility ever. It won't change any time soon either... took quite a while before he switched it to Delphi. __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
