While I agree with your sentiment, you aren't going to get "C" people to use Pascal. They hate the Pascal style syntax, and the fact that you need to declare all variables first etc.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Scadden Sent: Friday, 28 April 2006 9:08 a.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: RE: [DUG] More Delphi news... > C#/2.0 is better. That is an unfortunate fact. By the time Delphi catches up > to 2.0 Visual Studio will probably be at Orcas and .NET 3.0 and believe me > some of the features of 3.0 are show stoppers for any IDE that isn't using Delphi could compete with C++ for performance. C# is competing with Java. Its seems that get speed out of it you have to go to UNSAFE and then why arent you using C++? When Delphi started seeing itself as a competitor for VB rather C++, that's when rot set it. For me personally, I HATE C++. I'm rotten at it and takes forever to find all the bugs. On other hand, what I write is often performance-sensitive and trying to escape from Fortran. Delphi is an alternative but somewhat platform limited. Would be great as someone said if could get OSX/Windows/Unix capability. In past crossplatform has been hampered with the ideal of cross-platform GUI. Now this is a worthwhile holy grail I agree. However, access to native libraries and platform-compiling only is a great first step. ---------------------------------------------------------- Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
