Some excellent comments!
When I started using Delphi seriously Borland was in deep financial trouble,
and everyone was saying "don't touch Delphi - they'll be going under
soon...". My response was the point you make here - even it they did go
under and all Delphi support stopped, the productivity boost was worth the
risk.
The fuss is simply me wondering what kind of future Delphi has, and being
curious to find out what others think...
Martin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Nilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 4 January 2001 2:04 p.m.
> To: Multiple recipients of list Delphi
> Subject: RE: [DUG]: Is Delphi dead?
>
>
> Is Delphi Dead? IS DELPHI DEAD?
>
> I'd respond with "Is Elvis dead?" 8-)
>
> Delphi is only dead if Borland kill it, and then it'd take a few years
> before it moldered completly away and became unusable.
>
> From the Profax teams point of view Delphi biggest advantage
> is that its
> an extensible environment that can delivery us some seriously advanced
> productivity. It'd take us four years to try and get to the same place
> with C# and that's a lot of money to burn.
>
> What's the fuss anyway? Its just another language from the same family
> that started with Algol 68. Its not like MS is pushing a
> really different
> language (Schema et al) or making us think to hard (Lisp,
> Prolog). Any one
> of us would be able to start pumping out C# code inside a
> couple of weeks,
> and it not like your've gone out and tatooed "Borland Rule OK" on your
> forheads have you?
>
> Cheers, Max.
>
>
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