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Article #579Re: How to destroy Microsoft with Delphi ???
From: J French
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:39
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:39
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On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:43:41 -0500, "MikeB" <m.byerleyATVerizonDottieNettie> wrote: > > >> Anything but 'closet' Delphi users ! > >I mean to imply that there are probably more Delphi users over at m.p.v.g.d >than generally publicized... You are probably right >>>VB to Delphi is a pretty easy move for an experienced VBer and the Anti MS >>>sentiment over VB Dot Net lends to the ABMS choice. >> >> The joke is that difficult things in VB are dead easy in Delphi >> - Delphi is a little daunting for VB users who are not experienced >Agreed... most of what I do in Delphi are small non visual utilities to work >with RBase (rdbms) and VB is not very well suited to the limited API. Since >the GUI was completely rewritten in Delphi (beta was in 2001), it made >expanding usability with Delphi DLLs and Plugins a must. I mainly do DLLs in Delphi for file handling, data sorting etc - it is very good for the task
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