On the contrary, I would kill for garbage collection. If .NET was the ony place I could get garbage collection, then I would go there just for that. However, there are Java and many other places to get garbage collection.
If you believe the literature (I have no quotes or references, sorry), garbage collection is one of the biggest improvers of developer productivity you can find. I don't see garbage collection as a loss of control, or relying on someone else. I see it as freedom. Freedom from the restrictions that tracking and managing memory manually places upon the developer. Almost every day I think "I wish I had garbage collection, then this would be so much more elegant" at least once. Samuel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leigh Wanstead Sent: Thursday, November 17 2005 3:20 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] Delphi User Group >> garbage collection To be honest, I would prefer that I take control, instead of relying on someone else. Just get a copy of MemCheck.pas source code, no more memory leaks. ;-) Regards Leigh http://www.salenz.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Myles Penlington Sent: Thursday, 17 November 2005 3:05 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] Delphi User Group Managed code, garbage collection, large library. Just to name a few. At the moment in our project I would kill for garbage collection. Myles. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Traci Sumpter Sent: Thursday, 17 November 2005 15:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List' Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] Delphi User Group Me still using it too. I hate to say this but If Delphi goes .NET, then whats the point. Delphi has always been the Better altenative to M$. If Borland plays M$ games then IMHO , Open source is the way of the future. Cross platform and flexibilty is number one in my company, and if any force toward a certain technology and framework is implied then I am sure that there are may other means to do development that will be taken up with no objection. Any .NET enforcement will mean a complete drop of Delphi. I would like to hear from .Net (And Delphi.NET) developers who are willing to inform me of the benefits of .NET. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leigh Wanstead Sent: Thursday, 17 November 2005 2:47 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] Delphi User Group I think today the best Delphi version is Delphi 7. Regards Leigh http://www.salenz.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Phil Scadden Sent: Thursday, 17 November 2005 2:25 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List Subject: Re: [DUG-Offtopic] Delphi User Group > The Borland IDE has in my experience allowed me in certain ways to > flow in > thought and in creativity in problem anaylasis and solution finding, > in an almost unconsciouss way, that, I know from other friends, does > not happen so > easily, if at all, in other highly controlling IDEs. I can concur a little with this. Using both VS C++ .NET and Delphi 7. I find VS a monumental pain. Borland however reminds me very much of DEC - great engineering and useless marketing/pricing/product strategies. They just arent doing themselves any favours. IMHO Pro should be core product. (once bitten, twice shy on the highlevel versions - I'll choose my own 3rd party tools with long term support and support across versions thank you). Concentrate on performance, IDE, processor support (64bit for start) and cross-platform. And don't think documentation is afterthought. Glad I havent done an "upgrade" from D7 for all accounts. ---------------------------------------------------------- Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic Attention: This communication is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not use, disclose, copy or distribute it, other than to return it to us with your confirmation that it has been deleted from your system. _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
