Jim Wilson wrote:
 > Heh don't laugh.  At LWCE Borland was giving away Kylix which is
 > basically delphi ported to linux...and if i'm not mistaken that uses
 > something like turbo pascal as its "language".  It's what they call a
 > RAD tool.  Or is it a RAG (rapid atrocity generation) tool?

That's about the size of it.  Actually, to be fair, I've heard a lot
of very reasonable people say some very nice things about
Pascal/Delphi/Kylix.  It's not just a language, but a whole library
environment including GUI framework.

For my taste, frankly, it's awful.  Even ignoring the Pascal roots,
it's a proprietary language developable only with proprietary tools
and runable only under a proprietary runtime.  Yikes.  But the
corporate/IS world tends not to care about such things.  There, Kylix
competes with VB and Java (and soon C#) and probably does quite well.

If it comes down to a vote.  I'm going with David and FlighTeX.

Andy

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