Old yes, well C is older, C++ is about as old, Java is about as old (1996 for V1). So there is a rational debate to be had about age.
Security risk ? I would have thought off the top of my head that Delphi does not carry too many obvious security risks: - Relatively few DLL problems as it generally packages everything in the EXE - Relatively immune to buffer overflows if not allocating memory manually or using C-type strings (PChar). - Can one really make a case that Delphi is less secure than Java? There are occasional bugs to watch out for eg http://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/delphi-and-c-builder-vcl-library-buffer-overflow Maybe the corporates mean security risk of an ageing programmer suddenly feeling the need to retire from whatever cause. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hectors Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 4:38 PM To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] iOS 64bit +1 My recent experience is that corporates do not like it when you inform them that your application is written in Delphi, it is perceived as old and a security risk. It would be nice if there was a white paper or some material to reassure them. _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe
