I didn't know that delphi was a prop language. I guess that Borland products are pretty much going to be the only variety then. Now without wanting to sound at all ungrateful... there seems to be a bit of a trend with this. I showed my "data structures and algorithms in Java" book to my dad-in-law the other day and he immediately tells me "don't bother with Java, it has no future". Jee thanks mate. That doesn't, unfortunately, change the fact that that is what I'm going to be examined on. Maybe if you gave me a note? Well. That is probably triply true of Delphi. Not only is it proprietary, but nobody uses it. Nobody, of course, apart from the project I'm going to be coding on this summer... If I had a choice I would have learnt c as my first language, and c++ as my object-oriented language. I got taught vb6, Jade and now Java (that's right, I'm at a polytech, uh, did I say polytech, sorry, I meant Lincoln...). I am not going to be able to join any open-source project i'm interested in until well after exams finish (and then after teaching myself Delphi) because I won't have the time to really get into c until then. So please guys, don't rub it in. I would love not to have to work with these languages, but when needs must...
Cheers
Anton
Zane Gilmore wrote:
Anton, AFAIK Delphi is a proprietary language owned by Borland.
My guess is that there is probably not anything other than Borland's Kylix for Delphi just as (AFAIK) there isn't a "fully capable" IDE for Delphi on Windows other than Borland's IDE.
If you want a programming language and environment that comes close to that sort of thing maybe the KDE kdevelop that's for C++ would be good.
The flashy "intellisense" stuff that Kylix (I think) has can (sort of) be seen in the latest Quanta used with PHP.
XEmacs is a very powerful IDE but extremely difficult to learn how to use to it's fullest extent. But either way I would suggest trying another programming language that is not owned by anybody.
Try: C, Python, Perl, PHP, C++.
NB *Warning* Java is also owned by someone.
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 16:09, Anton wrote:
Hey,
Any recommendations for a fully capable free/open source (as I'm not really bothered...) Delphi IDE for Linux (other than Kylix)?
Salem
Anton
