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- From: brent_bysouth@mindlink.bc.ca (Brent Bysouth)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.misc,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: C++ with Zapp vs. Delphi
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 12:14:33 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- barrym@starbase.neosoft.com (barrym) wrote:
-
- >I'm a C programmer in a shop with lots of professional programmers using
- >VB and all the other new high level stuff and they do produce some very
- >nice apps very quickly. They also get stuck a lot. They run into all
- >sorts of OS limitations that they need to overcome, and all kinds of
- >speed problems presented by VB (and Delphi) and they call me.
-
- >My title is Senior Systems Analyst. If they ever really get these high
- >level programming tools designed without so many holes, I may have to
- >actually learn how to analyze senior systems, or whatever it is that
- >Senior Systems Analysts are supposed to do.
-
- >High level and simple means limitations, at least in the world as it is
- >today. I have no doubt that will change, but I expect to retire first.
-
- I don't want to join in (or start) any language war here, but I
- believe this is exactly the reason Delphi is popular -- it is a high
- level tool that *doesn't* have the limitations of most high level
- tools. Having come from a VB background, I know those limitations all
- too well!
-
- AFAIK, the only things Delphi can't do for Windows development are
- VXDs and possibly device drivers. If Delphi programmers are coming to
- you with speed problems and design problems, I respectively suggest
- that it comes from a lack of knowledge of Delphi, and not from
- limitations inherent in the product.
-
- Regards,
- Brent
-
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- brent_bysouth@mindlink.bc.ca
- VB, Delphi & SQL Development
- Vancouver, BC.
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