Re: [DUG] Email Files - is delphi dead?

2008-07-24 Thread Eric A

Looking at applications in C# or other Visual Studio languages - you'd be 
really struggling to develop database code (SQL Server et al) as efficiently as 
you can with Delphi.  It appears that Microsoft still haven't learned much from 
Borland in respect of providing a productive environment for developing 
enterprise database applications.  Not only do you have to write heaps of code 
but also setting properties for data-aware components (eg columns in a grid) is 
still painfully slow in Visual studio (sure you can write code to do it but 
that's even slower).

We've do try writing newer applications in Mickeysoft .NET but whenever we get 
a database application, or a smaller scale app, then using Delphi is still the 
only sensible answer in our experience (in terms of productivity).

Eric

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[Reply]

  Hi all,

  Just got this in the Firebird Yahoo Groups List. When I get a snap ( as 
in the card game ) I start to wonder.

  What are the issues people are finding now? ( see some below )

  Are people writing in other languages for new projects, and using delphi 
in just maintenance?

  Are people ( like me ) writing apps in the Web platform now as opposed to 
the Windows PC platform?

  kr

  gary

  Firebird List message:

  I was wondering if anyone knows what percentage of applications thatuse 
Firebird are written in Delphi?I ask because I think Delphi's general usage is 
already shrinking andI feel like it is only going to continue to do so. If 
Delphi doescontinue to shrink I was wondering what effect that will have 
onFirebird's growth.I work on a large system with millions of lines of Delphi 
code so weneed to consider where things will be in 3 to 5 years from now 
whichis why I am interested. We already are having a lot of problemsgetting 
support for some Delphi code we have purchased from 3rd parties.

  Huan

  At 10:53 on 24/07/2008 you wrote 

  To  : delphi@delphi.org.nz

  CC  : 

  From: Neven MacEwan, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  Content Type: text/plain

  Attached: 

  

  J

  

  Wouldn't IMAP be better

  

  Dont worry about the offtopic thing, other than this Delphi is dead 

  isn't it?

  

  N

   well, on sites I saw, people were taking about Dovecot and another one 

   called Zibra or somethng like that and had elpful looking tutorials, 

   but they seemed pretty complicated

  

   I guess I can take a look at your suggestion. Clearly POP3 would eb 

   FAR better.

   Jeremy

  

   Ow...just noticed I didnt email thisn to offtoipicSORRY EVERYONE 
:-)

  

    Original Message 

   Subject: Re: [DUG] Email Files

   From: Berend de Boer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

   Date: Thu, July 24, 2008 10:26 am

   To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List [EMAIL PROTECTED]

   mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].nz

  

jeremy == jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

   http://email.secureserver.net/pcompose.php#Compose writes:

  

   jeremy anyone got any ideas? APART from installing a POP3 server,

   jeremy as from what I have read this seems to be a bit of effort

   jeremy for just ONE email address.

  

   ? eh, it's more than something like apt-get install pop3 ??

  

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   Cheers,

  

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Re: [DUG] Email Files - is delphi dead?

2008-07-24 Thread Phil Scadden

 I can tell you from experience that 3 to 4 good Delphi developers can totally 
 outperform 30 to 40 Java developers on a similar sized project by a factor of 
 several months.
   
Basically every Java development tool sucks big time. We do a lot of 
java for web and you spend a lot of time fighting the tools. VS is 
another story though - use it for C, C++, and C#. It cant get around the 
ugliness of C and C++ but it sure makes debugging more palatable. The 
MPI and threading support rocks. Shame we will never get that kind of 
support for Kylix. (We develop in VS and deploy to linux). I also have 
VS 98 for Fortran - you can see the imprint of Delphi all over the VS 
versions from 2003 onward and lots of C# feels very much more like 
Delphi than C++.

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Re: [DUG] Email Files - is delphi dead?

2008-07-23 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply]

Hi all,

Just got this in the Firebird Yahoo Groups List. When I get a snap ( as in 
the card game ) I start to wonder.

What are the issues people are finding now? ( see some below )

Are people writing in other languages for new projects, and using delphi in 
just maintenance?

Are people ( like me ) writing apps in the Web platform now as opposed to the 
Windows PC platform?

kr

gary

Firebird List message:
I was wondering if anyone knows what percentage of applications that
use Firebird are written in Delphi?

I ask because I think Delphi's general usage is already shrinking and
I feel like it is only going to continue to do so. If Delphi does
continue to shrink I was wondering what effect that will have on
Firebird's growth.

I work on a large system with millions of lines of Delphi code so we
need to consider where things will be in 3 to 5 years from now which
is why I am interested. We already are having a lot of problems
getting support for some Delphi code we have purchased from 3rd parties.
Huan





At 10:53 on 24/07/2008 you wrote 
To  : delphi@delphi.org.nz
CC  : From: Neven MacEwan, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content Type: text/plain
Attached: 
J

Wouldn't IMAP be better

Dont worry about the offtopic thing, other than this Delphi is dead isn't it?

N
 well, on sites I saw, people were taking about Dovecot and another one  
 called Zibra or somethng like that and had elpful looking tutorials,  
 but they seemed pretty complicated

 I guess I can take a look at your suggestion. Clearly POP3 would eb  FAR 
 better.
 Jeremy

 Ow...just noticed I didnt email thisn to offtoipicSORRY EVERYONE :-)

  Original Message 
 Subject: Re: [DUG] Email Files
 From: Berend de Boer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: Thu, July 24, 2008 10:26 am
 To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].nz

  jeremy == jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 http://email.secureserver.net/pcompose.php#Compose writes:

 jeremy anyone got any ideas? APART from installing a POP3 server,
 jeremy as from what I have read this seems to be a bit of effort
 jeremy for just ONE email address.

 ? eh, it's more than something like apt-get install pop3 ??

 --  Cheers,

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Re: [DUG] Email Files - is delphi dead?

2008-07-23 Thread Phil Scadden

 What are the issues people are finding now? ( see some below )

   
Delphi stability is major nuisance - massive crashes on exit; Every 
second or third time you press
Run, I get AV. If reset and press Run again, then this go normally. 
Advice is that a 3rd party component is responsible but only solution to 
find it, it steady uninstall until problem goes away.
 Are people writing in other languages for new projects, and using delphi in 
 just maintenance?

   
I hate C style languages but VS C# is very productive, stable platform. 
Feels like Delphi, has the features like unicode and object inspectors 
that falls on deaf ears at Borland etc. My vast component base keeps 
small fast projects in Delphi, but for major or long term work, its 
becoming too risky.
 Are people ( like me ) writing apps in the Web platform now as opposed to the 
 Windows PC platform?

   
Web apps are fact of life despite being horribly painful to write and 
use. However, none of this happening on windows platform so delphi not 
even an issue.


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Re: [DUG] Email Files - is delphi dead?

2008-07-23 Thread Simon Garton
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I use and love Delphi 7, and have a small set of reliable components I use
over and over again. Comments on this list have utterly put me off upgrading
... grin I have tried Vis Studio options, but have been put off by the
slow IDE ... 

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 What are the issues people are finding now? ( see some below )

   
Delphi stability is major nuisance - massive crashes on exit; Every 
second or third time you press
Run, I get AV. If reset and press Run again, then this go normally. 
Advice is that a 3rd party component is responsible but only solution to 
find it, it steady uninstall until problem goes away.
 Are people writing in other languages for new projects, and using delphi
in just maintenance?

   
I hate C style languages but VS C# is very productive, stable platform. 
Feels like Delphi, has the features like unicode and object inspectors 
that falls on deaf ears at Borland etc. My vast component base keeps 
small fast projects in Delphi, but for major or long term work, its 
becoming too risky.
 Are people ( like me ) writing apps in the Web platform now as opposed to
the Windows PC platform?

   
Web apps are fact of life despite being horribly painful to write and 
use. However, none of this happening on windows platform so delphi not 
even an issue.


-- 
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Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232

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Re: [DUG] Email Files - is delphi dead?

2008-07-23 Thread Leigh Wanstead
I wish there is lord of the ring existing in the programming language to
rule them all ;-). But it just like normal life, no one tool will suit
anything. Just get used to using multiple tools should be fine. For normal
windows application, I think Delphi is great. For Linux platform, wrote in
C/C++ in KDevelope is not that hard.

Just my 2 nz cents ;-)

Have a nice day

Regards
Leigh
www.smootharm.com


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 What are the issues people are finding now? ( see some below )


Delphi stability is major nuisance - massive crashes on exit; Every
second or third time you press
Run, I get AV. If reset and press Run again, then this go normally.
Advice is that a 3rd party component is responsible but only solution to
find it, it steady uninstall until problem goes away.
 Are people writing in other languages for new projects, and using delphi
in just maintenance?


I hate C style languages but VS C# is very productive, stable platform.
Feels like Delphi, has the features like unicode and object inspectors
that falls on deaf ears at Borland etc. My vast component base keeps
small fast projects in Delphi, but for major or long term work, its
becoming too risky.
 Are people ( like me ) writing apps in the Web platform now as opposed to
the Windows PC platform?


Web apps are fact of life despite being horribly painful to write and
use. However, none of this happening on windows platform so delphi not
even an issue.


--
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Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232

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Re: [DUG] Email Files - is delphi dead?

2008-07-23 Thread Conor Boyd
I think I've said before, but my team at Trimble is still busy using
Delphi 2006 for the current release of our product, will probably be
moving to Delphi 2007 for the next release, and ultimately see a lot of
our code migrating to being compiled (as Delphi.NET code) into becoming
part of a larger app where the framework for that app is written by
another team in C#.
 
Still very much Windows based, quite heavily graphics oriented, with
DCOM, etc thrown in for good measure currently.
 
I don't see why there should be particular issues with 3rd party
support.  It's always made sense to acquire source for any 3rd party
libraries one uses anyway.
 
Cheers,
 
Conor



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On Behalf Of Gary T. Benner
 
Just got this in the Firebird Yahoo Groups List. When I get a snap (
as in the card game ) I start to wonder. 

What are the issues people are finding now? ( see some below ) 

Are people writing in other languages for new projects, and using delphi
in just maintenance? 

Are people ( like me ) writing apps in the Web platform now as opposed
to the Windows PC platform? 

kr 

gary 

Firebird List message: 

I was wondering if anyone knows what percentage of applications thatuse
Firebird are written in Delphi?I ask because I think Delphi's general
usage is already shrinking andI feel like it is only going to continue
to do so. If Delphi doescontinue to shrink I was wondering what effect
that will have onFirebird's growth.I work on a large system with
millions of lines of Delphi code so weneed to consider where things will
be in 3 to 5 years from now whichis why I am interested. We already are
having a lot of problemsgetting support for some Delphi code we have
purchased from 3rd parties. 

At 10:53 on 24/07/2008 you wrote 

Dont worry about the offtopic thing, other than this Delphi is dead 

isn't it? 

 

N 

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Re: [DUG] Email Files - is delphi dead?

2008-07-23 Thread Vikas...
Hi,

I have used Delphi 5, 6 and 7 and little bit Delphi 2006. We have most of
our bankign application written in Delphi. It is no doubt VS C# is great but
has disadvantage too in slowness. We developed the same application in C#
not web based though win32 based exact replica of delphi based applciation.
But was distasfied with the performance of C# . It is very slow as compared
to delphi applicaton. there is no doubt VS is good in web based , But recent
version of delphi unstabilty is really a major concern. I not sure if
Borland developers are really worrying about it. I think borland are not
even concern of the errors.

My company was planign to buy 2007. But cancelled it due to lot of complains
from it.

i Still feel delphi is best tool and looking forward to work on it for long.


Vikas
Solution consultant
NCR coorporation

On 7/24/08, Conor Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I think I've said before, but my team at Trimble is still busy using
 Delphi 2006 for the current release of our product, will probably be moving
 to Delphi 2007 for the next release, and ultimately see a lot of our code
 migrating to being compiled (as Delphi.NET code) into becoming part of a
 larger app where the framework for that app is written by another team in
 C#.

 Still very much Windows based, quite heavily graphics oriented, with DCOM,
 etc thrown in for good measure currently.

 I don't see why there should be particular issues with 3rd party support.
 It's always made sense to acquire source for any 3rd party libraries one
 uses anyway.

 Cheers,

 Conor

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  *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 *On Behalf Of *Gary T. Benner

 Just got this in the Firebird Yahoo Groups List. When I get a snap ( as
 in the card game ) I start to wonder.

 What are the issues people are finding now? ( see some below )

 Are people writing in other languages for new projects, and using delphi in
 just maintenance?

 Are people ( like me ) writing apps in the Web platform now as opposed to
 the Windows PC platform?

 kr

 gary

 Firebird List message:

 I was wondering if anyone knows what percentage of applications thatuse
 Firebird are written in Delphi?I ask because I think Delphi's general usage
 is already shrinking andI feel like it is only going to continue to do so.
 If Delphi doescontinue to shrink I was wondering what effect that will have
 onFirebird's growth.I work on a large system with millions of lines of
 Delphi code so weneed to consider where things will be in 3 to 5 years from
 now whichis why I am interested. We already are having a lot of
 problemsgetting support for some Delphi code we have purchased from 3rd
 parties.

 A*t 10:53 on 24/07/2008 you wrote *

 Dont worry about the offtopic thing, other than this Delphi is dead

 isn't it?

 

 N


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Re: [DUG] Email Files - is delphi dead?

2008-07-23 Thread Conor Boyd
I think it's fairly safe to assume that Borland developers are not
worrying about it at all.
 
Embarcadero's developers might be. ;-)
 
http://www.embarcadero.com/news/press_releases/acquisition_codegear.html



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On Behalf Of Vikas...
Sent: Thursday, 24 July 2008 4:13 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Email Files - is delphi dead?


Hi,
 
I have used Delphi 5, 6 and 7 and little bit Delphi 2006. We have most
of our bankign application written in Delphi. It is no doubt VS C# is
great but has disadvantage too in slowness. We developed the same
application in C# not web based though win32 based exact replica of
delphi based applciation. But was distasfied with the performance of C#
. It is very slow as compared to delphi applicaton. there is no doubt VS
is good in web based , But recent version of delphi unstabilty is really
a major concern. I not sure if Borland developers are really worrying
about it. I think borland are not even concern of the errors.
 
My company was planign to buy 2007. But cancelled it due to lot of
complains from it.
 
i Still feel delphi is best tool and looking forward to work on it for
long. 
 
Vikas
Solution consultant
NCR coorporation
 
On 7/24/08, Conor Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 

I think I've said before, but my team at Trimble is still busy
using Delphi 2006 for the current release of our product, will probably
be moving to Delphi 2007 for the next release, and ultimately see a lot
of our code migrating to being compiled (as Delphi.NET code) into
becoming part of a larger app where the framework for that app is
written by another team in C#.
 
Still very much Windows based, quite heavily graphics oriented,
with DCOM, etc thrown in for good measure currently.
 
I don't see why there should be particular issues with 3rd party
support.  It's always made sense to acquire source for any 3rd party
libraries one uses anyway.
 
Cheers,
 
Conor



From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary T. Benner
 

Just got this in the Firebird Yahoo Groups List. When I get a
snap ( as in the card game ) I start to wonder. 

What are the issues people are finding now? ( see some below ) 

Are people writing in other languages for new projects, and
using delphi in just maintenance? 

Are people ( like me ) writing apps in the Web platform now as
opposed to the Windows PC platform? 

kr 

gary 

Firebird List message: 

I was wondering if anyone knows what percentage of applications
thatuse Firebird are written in Delphi?I ask because I think Delphi's
general usage is already shrinking andI feel like it is only going to
continue to do so. If Delphi doescontinue to shrink I was wondering what
effect that will have onFirebird's growth.I work on a large system with
millions of lines of Delphi code so weneed to consider where things will
be in 3 to 5 years from now whichis why I am interested. We already are
having a lot of problemsgetting support for some Delphi code we have
purchased from 3rd parties. 

At 10:53 on 24/07/2008 you wrote 

Dont worry about the offtopic thing, other than this Delphi is
dead 

isn't it? 

 

N 














































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Re: [DUG] Email Files - is delphi dead?

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Peacocke
I have heard a lot of complaints regarding later versions of Delphi. Let me
assure you that EVERY language has problems. I still use Delphi 7 at home
and in my last job I used Delphi 2007 and was very happy with it. Even
Delphi 7 has some minor problems that we forget are there due to the fact
that we all know them and work around them.

I've been looking at several different languages and recently spoke of
languages in my blog at http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/

I have stated several times in my various blog posts that I have been
involved in many varied software development projects using many languages
and development environments. I can tell you from experience that 3 to 4
good Delphi developers can totally outperform 30 to 40 Java developers on a
similar sized project by a factor of several months.

However, I also note that the demise of Delphi over a period where, (in
http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/2007/07/delphipascal-through-ages.html), I
noted that ...companies left Borland, and as Borland lost interest in
Delphi.

I'd also be interested to know of new developments being made using
Delphi. I know of a development shop on the North Shore using Delphi. Any
others?

Here, at the place I work as Development Manager, we all wear the official
Oracle Robes and suggesting Delphi as a language would cause mass
hypertension and fainting. We are currently looking at a new development
environment here (was Oracle Forms) and are seriously looking at either:
Oracle's JDeveloper; Ruby on Rails (not Oracle, but operating against an
Oracle database where most of the application coding is done); or a .NET
language like C#.

We're very impressed so far with Ruby on Rails for sheer productivity, but
the jury is still out.

Steve Peacocke
Software Development Manager
InSoft.
0274 100-122
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Re: [DUG] Email Files - is delphi dead?

2008-07-23 Thread Myles Penlington
D2007 is much more reliable than D2006. 

Does not leak as much memory, and is much faster. Given a choice D2007
is far superior to D2006, and D7 IMO.

 

Myles.

 

 

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Sent: Thursday, 24 July 2008 4:59 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Email Files - is delphi dead?

 

I have heard a lot of complaints regarding later versions of Delphi. Let
me assure you that EVERY language has problems. I still use Delphi 7 at
home and in my last job I used Delphi 2007 and was very happy with it.
Even Delphi 7 has some minor problems that we forget are there due to
the fact that we all know them and work around them.

I've been looking at several different languages and recently spoke of
languages in my blog at http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/

I have stated several times in my various blog posts that I have been
involved in many varied software development projects using many
languages and development environments. I can tell you from experience
that 3 to 4 good Delphi developers can totally outperform 30 to 40 Java
developers on a similar sized project by a factor of several months.

However, I also note that the demise of Delphi over a period where, (in
http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/2007/07/delphipascal-through-ages.html
), I noted that ...companies left Borland, and as Borland lost interest
in Delphi.

I'd also be interested to know of new developments being made using
Delphi. I know of a development shop on the North Shore using Delphi.
Any others?

Here, at the place I work as Development Manager, we all wear the
official Oracle Robes and suggesting Delphi as a language would cause
mass hypertension and fainting. We are currently looking at a new
development environment here (was Oracle Forms) and are seriously
looking at either: Oracle's JDeveloper; Ruby on Rails (not Oracle, but
operating against an Oracle database where most of the application
coding is done); or a .NET language like C#.

We're very impressed so far with Ruby on Rails for sheer productivity,
but the jury is still out.

Steve Peacocke
Software Development Manager
InSoft.
0274 100-122



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