Re: VB6, VB2005, or Something Else?


"Ralph" <nt_consulting64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Has anyone played with their or anyone else's "Pacal.Net" stuff - is
this going to be a serious option?

Here's one voice you may recognize from these parts:


http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=*.borland.*&as_uauthors=dan%40mvps.org

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Working without a .NET?
http://classicvb.org/


Hey! That was useful. (Why didn't I think to just google? I sure am quick
to
suggest it to others. <g>)

It seems that I should spend a little less time listening to the hype and
a
bit more doing a little research.

Been doing research on this issue since before 2001 (
http://vb.mvps.org/tips/stability.asp ). Most of it "casual" research
(trying a few things, keeping my ear to the ground, looking at the companies
and strategies).

Short version: I'm not going to get religious about it, I care about the
business issues. I still like ClassicVB best, Delphi isn't far behind and
it's growing on me, I couldn't find any other tools besides these two that
would let me concentrate on the *application* instead of the code as well.
Deep product and community support. WinApps as well as .Net. Even VCL
(their component lib) is more .Net compatible than I'd expected. I've
completely lost trust in what MS may or may not do to my code with their
development tools. While Delphi isn't absolutely perfect in that regard,
they're not even in the league with MS. Over the years complaints have been
near zero and trivial.

This most recent move with Borland separating Delphi out (or as Duntemann
puts it "Delphi Dumps Borland"<vbg>) promises to be a VeryGoodThing. Until
they complete the sale it's not "in the bag", but everybody who cares about
Delphi's future is pretty "up" right now. One you might recognize:

see "February 9, 2006: Delphi Dumps Borland"
http://www.duntemann.com/Diary.htm

Dan



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