Delphi
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After learning how people feel about VB, I was wondering how people feel about Delphi? I have a copy of Borland Turbo Delphi and so far I find it easy and fun.
Delphi seems to me to be a disaster. At least, any software that I've known was written in Delphi, has been an obvious disaster. I have no idea what it looks like, tho. Are you on a quest to use the most popular language ? If you want to do windows, C# and VB.NET are the only logical choices, IMO, unless you have a reason to use C++. Delphi doesn't even make the list.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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Delphi seems to me to be a disaster. At least, any software that I've known was written in Delphi, has been an obvious disaster. I have no idea what it looks like, tho. Are you on a quest to use the most popular language ? If you want to do windows, C# and VB.NET are the only logical choices, IMO, unless you have a reason to use C++. Delphi doesn't even make the list.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
Christian Graus wrote:
Delphi seems to me to be a disaster
Christian Graus wrote:
I have no idea what it looks like
How can you judge something that you have no idea about?
Christian Graus wrote:
Delphi doesn't even make the list
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Christian Graus wrote:
Delphi seems to me to be a disaster
Christian Graus wrote:
I have no idea what it looks like
How can you judge something that you have no idea about?
Christian Graus wrote:
Delphi doesn't even make the list
Igor Vigdorchik wrote:
How can you judge something that you have no idea about?
As I said, every Delphi program I have seen, was a disaster.
Igor Vigdorchik wrote:
Are you sure about that?[^]
I mean my list of well supported languages for Windows. I can't speak for other lists.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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Igor Vigdorchik wrote:
How can you judge something that you have no idea about?
As I said, every Delphi program I have seen, was a disaster.
Igor Vigdorchik wrote:
Are you sure about that?[^]
I mean my list of well supported languages for Windows. I can't speak for other lists.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
Christian Graus wrote:
As I said, every Delphi program I have seen, was a disaster.
What does it have to do with the language being a disaster? BTW do you know what is the language that Delphi is based on?
Christian Graus wrote:
I mean my list
Care to share with us how did you come up with your list?
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Christian Graus wrote:
As I said, every Delphi program I have seen, was a disaster.
What does it have to do with the language being a disaster? BTW do you know what is the language that Delphi is based on?
Christian Graus wrote:
I mean my list
Care to share with us how did you come up with your list?
Igor Vigdorchik wrote:
BTW do you know what is the language that Delphi is based on?
Pascal ?
Igor Vigdorchik wrote:
Care to share with us how did you come up with your list?
Common sense
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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How people feel about anything on this site should in no way affect your enjoyment of that thing. ;) The only Borland product I ever used was Turbo C++ back in the day and I loved it because of the radical new invention of coloured syntax highlighting. :)
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After learning how people feel about VB, I was wondering how people feel about Delphi? I have a copy of Borland Turbo Delphi and so far I find it easy and fun.
I've done some Delphi and I dont mind it. := )
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Delphi seems to me to be a disaster. At least, any software that I've known was written in Delphi, has been an obvious disaster. I have no idea what it looks like, tho. Are you on a quest to use the most popular language ? If you want to do windows, C# and VB.NET are the only logical choices, IMO, unless you have a reason to use C++. Delphi doesn't even make the list.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
If I'd had to choose between Delphi and VB6, I'd choose Delphi in less than a picosecond. Although, I admit, Delphi is known for having many bugs in its standard controls. Still, it's best than VB6 IMO. Also, AFAIK, Delphi 7 follows the CLS and you can use it to build .NET apps.
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John Cardinal wrote:
The only Borland product I ever used was Turbo C++
The one with the dos text mode ide? I think i still have the floppy disks from the educational version that came with my text book
Yeah that's it, I still remember that cool feeling you get when you see some new truly cool technology come along. I bought it with my first computer I ever bought brand new. Also around that time was the "Origami" editor which was the first editor I ever used to write code that supported collapsible regions. I used Turbo c++ to write a very convoluted and big BBS door game which sadly I gave up on 3/4 of the way through when real life required more attention. Oh well all that coding helped out in the big picture one way or another.
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Christian Graus wrote:
Delphi seems to me to be a disaster
Christian Graus wrote:
I have no idea what it looks like
How can you judge something that you have no idea about?
Christian Graus wrote:
Delphi doesn't even make the list
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If I'd had to choose between Delphi and VB6, I'd choose Delphi in less than a picosecond. Although, I admit, Delphi is known for having many bugs in its standard controls. Still, it's best than VB6 IMO. Also, AFAIK, Delphi 7 follows the CLS and you can use it to build .NET apps.
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I'd choose PE over VB6.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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Yeah that's it, I still remember that cool feeling you get when you see some new truly cool technology come along. I bought it with my first computer I ever bought brand new. Also around that time was the "Origami" editor which was the first editor I ever used to write code that supported collapsible regions. I used Turbo c++ to write a very convoluted and big BBS door game which sadly I gave up on 3/4 of the way through when real life required more attention. Oh well all that coding helped out in the big picture one way or another.
John Cardinal wrote:
Yeah that's it, I still remember that cool feeling you get when you see some new truly cool technology come along. I bought it with my first computer I ever bought brand new.
It was my first programming experiance after cobol so I thought it was fantastic. I dont miss the 16bit segment/offset pointer stuff though
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Delphi seems to me to be a disaster. At least, any software that I've known was written in Delphi, has been an obvious disaster. I have no idea what it looks like, tho. Are you on a quest to use the most popular language ? If you want to do windows, C# and VB.NET are the only logical choices, IMO, unless you have a reason to use C++. Delphi doesn't even make the list.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
no, Im not on any kind of quest just curious to others opinions.
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After learning how people feel about VB, I was wondering how people feel about Delphi? I have a copy of Borland Turbo Delphi and so far I find it easy and fun.
The author of C# is also the author of Delphi. http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/oreilly/windows/news/hejlsberg_0800.html[^] "Anders Hejlsberg is also known for having designed Turbo Pascal, one of the first languages available for PCs. Anders licensed Turbo Pascal to Borland and later led the team that created Delphi, a highly successful visual design tool for building client server applications."
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After learning how people feel about VB, I was wondering how people feel about Delphi? I have a copy of Borland Turbo Delphi and so far I find it easy and fun.
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Delphi seems to me to be a disaster. At least, any software that I've known was written in Delphi, has been an obvious disaster. I have no idea what it looks like, tho. Are you on a quest to use the most popular language ? If you want to do windows, C# and VB.NET are the only logical choices, IMO, unless you have a reason to use C++. Delphi doesn't even make the list.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
I did a bit of work in Delphi 2.0, it was waaay better than any other offering at that time. Anyway, Total Commander[^] is one Delphi application that I cannot live without :-)
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After learning how people feel about VB, I was wondering how people feel about Delphi? I have a copy of Borland Turbo Delphi and so far I find it easy and fun.
Stigmurder wrote:
After learning how people feel about VB, I was wondering how people feel about Delphi? I have a copy of Borland Turbo Delphi and so far I find it easy and fun.
I guess, 80% of all freeware and nagware (a.k.a. shareware) programs are written in Delphi.
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After learning how people feel about VB, I was wondering how people feel about Delphi? I have a copy of Borland Turbo Delphi and so far I find it easy and fun.
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Delphi seems to me to be a disaster. At least, any software that I've known was written in Delphi, has been an obvious disaster. I have no idea what it looks like, tho. Are you on a quest to use the most popular language ? If you want to do windows, C# and VB.NET are the only logical choices, IMO, unless you have a reason to use C++. Delphi doesn't even make the list.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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Igor Vigdorchik wrote:
How can you judge something that you have no idea about?
As I said, every Delphi program I have seen, was a disaster.
Igor Vigdorchik wrote:
Are you sure about that?[^]
I mean my list of well supported languages for Windows. I can't speak for other lists.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )