No, I didn't miss the intended sarcasm of the original remark. It just
triggered me into trying to find out what others though about the future of
Delphi.
One thought that I didn't put down in my original posting was that for
Delphi to survive it must surely attract new developers. With C# offering
all of the advantages and more, why would new Windows developers choose
Delphi?
Out of curiosity, how many of the languages in your list were available 10
years ago? 10 years ago I recall developing in assembler, C and Occam. I
moved onto C++, found VB revolutionary and then became an early Delphi
adopter. Each of the languages brought new advantages that I welcomed.
Personally I would be disappointed if we were are still using the languages
of today in 10 years time! It would mean that there had been little change
in the computer field...
Martin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neven MacEwan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 4 January 2001 12:38 p.m.
> 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.
>
> 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)
>
> 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!
>
> Neven
>
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