I chime in behind this aspect
To me DotNOT is just an other of the never ending ploys by MS to control the entire scope of electronic devices [PC, watches, phones, .....]
I have worked with Pascal/Delphi since its incepction, giving up assembly for it. C/C--, Jiva, etc are just others is the never ending cycle.
As for speed, I have benchmarked some Delphi apps faster than C, and improvements can always be made my dropping assembly in for the generic code, not to mention never having to package or have the end user polute their system with more bloated code [api/dotnot,etc].
I do hope that Kylix [Delphi for Linux] stays a float for cross-platform.
And upgrading, why?
Dephi 6, MapInfo 6.5, OpenOffice provide 99% of all my 'Doze work, with Firefox/Thunderbird the other 1% and OO/FF/TB on Linux [until MI will work under Wine].
For quick scripting based work [delphi, vb, python, perl....] I use ScriptBuilder [http://www.skbkontur.ru/sb/eng/index.htm]
My %0.0175us
Steve McArthur wrote:
Hi all
I havn't heard much in this discussion from the Delphi developers out there so I'll throw in my humble 2 cents. For me the move to Dot NET doesn't seem to provide much advantages. The Delphi IDE has always provided the advantages that the VB.net IDE now provides (I heard someone describe it as a clone of Delphi) and there has always been a wealth of components available to the Delphi developer. It is even possible to write a wrapper around the MapInfo OLE model to make it behave like a COM object. Whilst Delphi provides its own Dot NET IDE and compiler, it still also gives you the option to compile WIN32 application - VB.net etc no longer seems to give you that option. It seems to me that writing applications in Dot NET only gives me the option of building slower applications running in an interpreted environment. If you want to write fast number crunching applications then you have to write WIN32 apps it seems to me.
However, I'd be the first to admit that I've not looked into Dot NET all that much but I'm mindful that if you resist change too much you might end up left behind. If I need to earn my living in GIS development then I think more and more employers are going to ask for Dot NET experience. Its hard enough being a Delphi developer without being Dot NET illiterate. But if MapInfo Dot NET means you can write quick and dirty utilities with a half decent user interface then maybe that's a good thing.
End of 2 cents
Steve
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