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On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:16:21 GMT, ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com (Phred)
wrote:


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>Thanks very much, Charles, for your thoughtful and useful response.
>I do have a followup query though:  How difficult would it be for an 
>old BASIC programmer to become reasonably proficient in Delphi?
>I believe it harks back to Pascal in many ways, so perhaps your 
>earlier experience with that language would have helped in your case?  
>However, judging from your response, you have also had a fair bit to 
>do with various BASICs, so I would appreciate your advice on this.

I've been using BASICs since 1977

I started using VB on 1996 and ran into speed problems so I got a copy
of Delphi and used it to write a DLL containing pure ASM

Then I got interested in the language
- it is not BASIC
- I made the cardinal mistake of trying to write BASIC code in it

I've ported a fair load of BASIC 7.1 code directly into Delphi
- it is not that difficult

If I'm correct in guessing that you have done no Windows programming
then I reckon your biggest problem is going to be getting a handle on
how Windows works

There is also something to watch out for, Delphi is a 'new' form of
Pascal 
- old style Pascal is not really to my taste
- one can write far clearer code using the 'new' features of Delphi
  but a lot of the code one sees is in the 'old style'

It is an interesting language, not really for beginners, but for a
fairly experienced coder it is a pleasure to use.