-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Miguel,
@2-Oct-2002, 19:52 +0200 (18:52 UK time) Miguel A. Urech [MAU] in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> Take it from one who has had to work with other people's code. I >> much prefer the strong typing of C++, letting the compiler do the >> work of catching my typing errors *before* the code runs. MAU> I was a software developer for over 25 years but I haven't MAU> written a single line of code in 8 years or so now. So, I am MAU> not at all familiar with Delphi. But if I was to come back to MAU> s/w development, what you say would be enough a reason to not MAU> even consider Delphi as a possible tool. If I may give my point of view here, although not asked for. As a software engineer (for at least as long as you <g>), but one who still works and uses Delphi (5), C++ Builder and MSVC++ I would recommend the best tool for the job in hand chosen as per the job requirements. MSVC++ turns out the tightest code but requires a greater knowledge and more attention to detail. For robust, clean code it's hard to beat. Delphi will get you the quickest results from a blank start to a well rounded finish. Quicker than VB, and the resultant application runs well. Very well. There are some strange Z-Order quirks with Delphi apps and sometimes things are a little *too* tightly tucked away for my liking. Add to this the unsafe aspects that Mark highlights, I don't trust it. Having said that, I actually use Delphi for an awful lot of programming. DTMFDial is a Delphi app; so is MDQuickMail (a couple of little freebies I publish). Also, my main bread-and-butter project is in Delphi, as was my previous main project. BrainStorm, my pride and joy product, is in MSVC++. MFC is a PITA but you real can get down and dirty with the API in a moment. Another project I did was in C++ builder. I inherited it. What I got from doing that project was the impression that I had "some of both" at my disposal - Delphi's ease of use but its penchant for disguising things inside the VCL coupled with C++'s stronger type safe stuff and greater elegance (I have always found Pascal to be an ugly language and C/C++ a work of art). Now this is pure voodoo and folklore, but I somehow felt that with C++ builder I was working with a "toy" system. I can't explain it, but I didn't have the same confidence. Anyway, just thought it may be of interest to hear another viewpoint. - -- Cheers -- .\\arck D Pearlstone -- List moderator TB! v1.62/Beta5 on Windows 2000 5.0.2195 Service Pack 2 ' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQE9mzoIOeQkq5KdzaARAi9rAJ9mr/06Rp5tjavTYIBRZqAH1MFDpACgtYv6 fTtXDmzpulEGg5jT/GfSSzg= =KfVO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBTECH" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
