> Why is it that every body and anything got a Dot Net version? Cause .NET is a new and carefully designed OOP platform
> Even Borland's got a dot net enabled Delphi coming it seems. Delphi supports .NET since version 8 (version 7 had a preview .NET compiler if I remember well - a command-line version). Download the free Turbo Delphi Explorer (http://www.borland.com/turbo) to play with it or get a Delphi Studio trial > Some say that Microsoft got Dot net idea from Delphi. Anders Heljberg (maybe mistyped) who had made Borland Pascal and first versions of Delphi moved to MS and designed C# etc., so played a big role in .NET > In Linux there is a mono project. What could the advantages > be ? Is it for collaborative development? Mono runs on various UNIX OS (including Mac OS-X), not only Linux > Where does all > this leave Lazarus/Fpc? Since there's VCL.net port from Borland, Lazarus could also support .NET and do similar port of its GUI libs in the future. Depends on FreePascal compiling to .NET IL [Intermediate Language] and possibly also supporting CodeDom emission for the compiled sources [useful for IDE tools]. Maybe we see this in the future too as an option (a .NET target and maybe a Lazarus IDE version compilable/running under .NET and mono too) > Already my head is cluttered and confused with so many tools. > One company is offered me a job , if I could write the > Suduku game using Python. For my work I use Delphi/Lazarus > and PHP. Now if I need to get out of this company I need to > go the dot net way. Python is nice OOP language > Yeah, I understand, Computer Science is not like Physics or > Mathematics. > Today's tech is dumped within few years. Quantum mechanics > and Relativity is perennial as Calculus and Probablity > theory. Is there anything like that in CS? Maybe plain C or > Pascal fits the bill? It's always useful to know Structure Programming (say Pascal) before you move to Object-Oriented Programming (say Object Pascal, or C#, VB.net or J# and Java, etc.) > My colleagues in other departments like Physics and Math > regret they dint go the CS route. But I regret I dint stick > to Physics or Mathematics. In these an Equation is always an > equation. We dont have another company coming up and throwing > away an equation for a new one. > And we dont have to learn things from scratch to stay in the job. But then you lose all the fun, plus your skill rot ---------------- George Birbilis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Computer & Informatics Engineer Microsoft MVP J# for 2004-2006 Borland "Spirit of Delphi" ++ QuickTime, Delphi, ActiveX, .NET components ++ http://www.kagi.com/birbilis ++ Robotics ++ http://www.mech.upatras.gr/~Robotics http://www.mech.upatras.gr/~robgroup _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0644-0, 30/10/2006 Tested on: 30/10/2006 1:10:35 ?? avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2006 ALWIL Software. _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
