> > year that require the use of Delphi. At the end of my masters and PhD I
> will
> > (hopefully) have a programming language written in Delphi. All the design
> > will be done - if Delphi is too expensive then it will be re-written in
> something
> > that is cheaper.
>
> if you are going to develop a new programming language (and I'm guessing
> also a special IDE for it?) it seems (to me) you want to make it
> accessible to as many people as possible.
>
> I think Delphi is a great programming environment - but wouldn't you be
> better off writing most of your core code in something like C++?
>
> If you're relying on all the spiffy extensions in enterprise D5 you're
> really restricting yourself. Why do you need this stuff to implement
> a language? If you want your language to become popular (i think)
> you're best off implementing it with a very simple framework. Delphi 2
> probably has everything you need to do that.
>
> And if you're doing something nontrivial, "rewriting it later" is not going
> to be something you can do over a weekend.
>
> just my .00836$US FWIW
>
All that is true if we were just developing a new language - but we are
developing a "different" language. We are suing Delphi cos it makes
complex things easy. When the concept is proven that it will have to
be rewritten in a better (faster) language or a stripped down version
of Delphi - i.e., we use fewer Delphi components that do lots more than
we need and not quite all we need. We will just have to optimise it.
The main reason that Delphi will be used for the development is that
students will work on it and Delphi is an easy language in which to
implement standards - that way the code the students come up with
may be able to be used.
Chrissy.
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