I reckon the problem of too few people upgrading is two-fold:
1 - Delphi is too good.
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Done work for a firm still using D5 for 10 years. Still works just fine. Not
designed to break or become insecure after a few years.
2 - Delphi was not good enough
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ie not cheap enough to be a no-brainer to buy (unlike Turbo pascal early 90's),
not cutting edge and exciting enough to attract the fresh new faces learning
programming. Mainly because Borland took eyes off the developer community.
Maybe got leant on to do .NET stuff by MS too, and big end tools and lost their
unique focus.
Serves them right to disappear into the bowels of a Cobol company. I remember
that MicroFocus was around big time 25 years ago. Looks like they kept focus
at least (no pun intended).
I however don't consider Delphi to be small time or dying. The previous
language I programmed in doesn't even rate in the top 100 on the TIOBE index,
so to get into Delphi with huge resources on the web is big time for me :)
(The old language incidentally is 30 years old, still produces applications in
daily use, solid compiled/interpreted stuff. Anyone remember the name DIBOL?)
John
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