Re: [gnat@frii.com: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2]

[Paul Makepeace]

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:06:22PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> And just to complete my final blasphemy, Visual Basic, may have
> a shit language behind it, it may have performance problems, 
> it may be very limited and may force you to implement the guts
> as of any serious program you write as C/C++ DLLs but
> is still the most impressive implementation of a programming 
> language/dialect that I have ever seen,

You clearly haven't used Delphi. It is *streets* ahead of VB. Not
only that they provide source to their components. Not only that,
Object Pascal is possibly one of the best practical OO languages
in existence. Their component model just rocks. And their editor
is fantastic.

Delphi rules.

Paul