Re: VB6, VB2005, or Something Else?

Dan Barclay wrote:
"Ralph" <nt_consulting64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:rMudnZdx2egP2mLeRVn-vw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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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

..NET framework has been designed (involved in design) by a former Borland employee, so it's no wonder that both frameworks are similar.

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.

Really ? Regarding Delphi yes (Besides the threads regarding 64 Bit and ..NET *g*). But what about CBuilderX ? I like Delphi and don't want to start a religious war here. All I want to state it that different languages are treated differently.


This most recent move with Borland separating Delphi out (or as Duntemann puts it "Delphi Dumps Borland"<vbg>) promises to be a VeryGoodThing. Until

I hope, we will see.

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:

But you are still using a language owned by a single company ?

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

Dan

Andre
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