Re: Art of Electronics Rave - NON Politix! :-)

From: Nico Coesel (nico_at_puntnl.niks)
Date: 01/16/05 

Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:50:52 GMT

"Richard H." <rh86@no.spam> wrote:

>Jim Thompson wrote:
>> My last experience at programming was years ago... Pascal. My son,
>
>Look into Delphi from Borland - a Pascal VB-style platform. GUI
>controls are drag & drop, enter/exit of event routines are automatically
>generated - you only have to write the "meat" of your code, using Pascal.

Whatever you do, don't use Delphi (Pascal). You're walking into a dead
end street with Delhpi. Pascal and C are quite similar when it comes
to the structure of the language, but C is more complete and elegant
as a language. Borland / Inprise turned Delphi in some sort of a C
clone anyway so why settle for less if you can use the real thing: C 

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