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

From: Richard H. (rh86_at_no.spam)
Date: 01/17/05 

Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:14:36 -0700

Nico Coesel wrote:
> Whatever you do, don't use Delphi (Pascal).
> You're walking into a dead end street with Delhpi.
> [...]
> 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

Interesting. I'm no Pascal buff, but used Delphi for some time before
they finally released the C++Builder platform derivative. What about it
is negative? Has it warped in newer versions (or have they stopped
updating it)? Or do you just dislike the VB-style objects?

Borland always seemed to be a huge supporter of Pascal, placing it ahead
of even C/C++ (as seen with Delphi's release well before C++Builder), so
it seems unlikely that they would abandon this product, or Pascal.

Richard

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