>The world is not black and white. Plenty of "C" people can see the >benefits in a readable, more-readily maintainable language with a >rich component base - provided its performance and reliability is up >there.
>The trick is to get more of them to try it in the first place, if >it's to become a developer-driven language again. Maybe Borland or >DevCo have some ideas in that direction. Yeah, fair call. I'll rephrase - I personally find C/Java style syntax much more readable and maintainable than Pascal style syntax and the majority of C/Java programmers I know would agree. For me Delphi was never about the syntax - I much prefer C Style as I have stated - it was about the VCL, ease of use, no dll hell and the developer community. My point I guess is other platforms have caught up and at the moment Delphi isn't different/better enough now to say to developers on those other platforms - "Hey look at how quickly/easily I can do this in Delphi compared to x". I think Borland is completely to blame - they dropped the ball. They let Delphi stagnate over the last few years and a lot of Delphi people switched to other languages. You just have to look at the names on the .NET list group to see that. A fair chunk have come from here. Maybe DevCo can turn this around - time will tell. _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
