When I look at Delphi I see more then just a IDE, I see the VCL, the streaming system, RTTI, the packaging system and the ease of use (talking D7). In fact, I think the IDE is the leest important for me! Those are the true inovations Borland came up with, those are the things that made Delphi better then VB for the Win32 platform, and those are all of grate value!
Also not to be forgotten: Delphi is pascal-based, so that makes it very easy to learn. While I don't think this is a problem for me (I've allready learnt a few different programming languages and I guess this is just as they say it is about foreign languages: after the first few you learn, it all comes easy) but it's very important for my "crew". Add to this the fact that an novice user can drop a button on form, double click to get an OnClick event and put in some code, withoug understanding any of the complexitys that make the whole system work! I've got no plans to write anything (except my web site) using .NET in the following two years. It makes no economical sense for me to do so. When I've got D8 and D9 upgrades I allmost knew I'll only use them for "playing around" and testing. I aint had any real intention of using them for any real work. I've got other raisons to stay with Delphi: I'm maintaining 3 large applications, all with lots of users (most users got a "maintainance/service contract" so those applications are continuously paying back). Those 3 large applications are 100% Delphi and they make heavy use of all those grate Delphi features (like VCL, RTTI, Streaming), and I'm anything but a fan of "rewriting" stuff form one language to an other just for the sake of compiling with a different compiler! And if that's not enough, I can count 3 new menu's in my Delphi's IDE that make my life with the IDE much easyer (no point in enumerating what those are and what they do). I've also got lots of custom components scattered all over my component palette, I've got "experts" installed in the IDE to help syncronize build numbers betwen the work I do in the IDE and the work I do using FinalBuilder to build my realeses. Hmmm... and there's probably more but I'm missing it at this point. I guess I'm so productive with my Delphi 7 and I have integrated it into my work enviroment it's allmost family :) After all, I've unfortunatelly managed to spend more time with Delphi (at work) then my family the last few month... Robert Meek wrote: > Now I'm curious! Considering everything that was "officially" said > about D8 and D9, what is it about what has been officially said about > D2006 that makes you even consider it will be any better? > One thing Borland is NOT short of it seems is a loyal fan base. And > I admit to having been such a loyal believer myself, but when you get > right down to it, the things that made such loyal followers out of so > many of us were accomplished in the first half of Delphi's tenure! > Since then they have ceased being the innovators they used to be and > have become the followers! > I thought I was being too loyal when after a useless D8 I still went > out and bought D9! But you're hooked even worse than I was because > you have two versions sitting on your shelf proving that your loyalty > is misplaced! Loyalty is something only family gets without constant > reaffirmation. Loyalty to anyone or anything else has to be earned > at every turn of the road, and Borland has made two left turns > without doing so! How and why do they rate such loyalty from you? > > from: Robert Meek at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > dba "Tangentals Design" home of "PoBoy" > freeware Windows apps and utilities > located at: www.TangentalsDesign.com > Proud to be a moderator for the > "Delphi Programming Lists" at: elists.org > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cosmin Prund > Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 3:02 AM > To: Delphi-Talk Discussion List > Subject: Re: Delphi 2006 Announced...moved from Delphi List > > Rob Kennedy wrote: >> I know you've read about the Delphi roadmap, so you must have read >> that Delphi 2006 (still known only as DeXter at the time) would have >> ECO and Together in all editions. Just because *you* won't use them >> doesn't mean they won't be there or that you didn't read about them. > > Delphi will include ECO in all versions? Thtat's *GRATE* news! I > followed ECO's evolution from the time it was named BOLD but it was > allways a bit out > > of reach for my small teem. I'm looking forward to something > model-driven that helps me create high quality code faster! > > Delphi 2006 will also include Together in all versions? That's not so > important for me because I use JediVCS. Also a Borland Made versioning > system that's better integrated in the IDE might be a better choise > for us. > > I'm not an eterprise developer, I'm just a professional programmer > that works with a small teem and makes money out of using Delphi. I > do work on a number of programms, some of them fairly large (over > 100,000 lines of code), > > and as is probably the case with many other profesional programmers > around the world, I've got more WORK then TIME. Allmost anything that > helps me create better code faster is wellcomed (as long as it can be > learnt > easilly - my "workforce" is allways changing). > > As for Delphi 8 and Delphi 2005? While I am a bit fanatic about > Delphi and I > > do like everything that's Delphi-related, I keep those two in the box. > They're not offering me enogh to buy them + all the components for > all the teem, so I've got them but I don't use them :) I just hope > Delphi will survive those "down times" and will again deliver a grate > IDE. And when the time comes for me to upgrade to D2006, I hope I'll > be able to recompile all of my 3rd party components... > > __________________________________________________ > 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 __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
