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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Neven MacEwan
> Sent: Thursday, 4 January 2001 12:38
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: Is Delphi dead?
>
>
> Martin
>
> > "Are they trying to sucker us to C++ so we miss the VB -> C# Stampede?"
>
> You probably missed the intended sarcasm in that remark.
>
> One of the "features" of C# is platform independence with M$
> recent history
> on
> this topic (the J++ windowising) would you trust these people.
Do you mean, as in MS made J++ not work with Java but only with their own
Windows-based library?
> Delphi/Kylix is still my first choice for Graphical App
> Development and the
> recent
> thread on Free Pascal/Lazarus only reinforces that choice (if it
> was a load
> of crap why would people copy it)
My interest in the thread was mainly would Borland tolerate a Kylix clone in
the marketplace
> The truth is that in 10 years time we will still be using Delphi,
> VB, Java,
> FoxPro, TCL, Perl, Python
> and possibly C#..there is no golden bullet and no compelling
> reason to jump
> onto the latest
> fad..certainly not because a review says VB is easier to use!
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...be made new in the attitude of your minds...
-- Ephesians 4:23
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