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- From: Christopher Fynn <cfynn@sahaja.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc
- Subject: Re: C++ with Zapp vs. Delphi
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 96 23:30:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <821575801snz@sahaja.demon.co.uk>
- References: <4coar6$d4n@sun4.bham.ac.uk> <4coip7$69s@news1.usa.pipeline.com> <DBk8wg2yqjbB083yn@iaccess.za> <4d7pmb$48c8@tigger.cc.uic.edu>
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- In article <4d7pmb$48c8@tigger.cc.uic.edu>
- olczyk@sunphy1.phy.uic.edu "Thadeus Olczyk" writes:
-
- > Vince Risi (vincer@iaccess.za) wrote:
- > : In article <4coip7$69s@news1.usa.pipeline.com>, grantp@usa.pipeline.com wrote:> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
- >
- > : > Here we go again, comparing apples and oranges.
- > : > Delphi is a development system.
- > : > C++ is a language.
- >
- > : Here I disagree Delphi is a visual programming language.
- > Nope. All you can progrom visually are GUI apps. You can't
- > for example you can't program an inventory or a payroll app.
- > Or a switching system. The only thing you can program visually
- > are dialog boxes. This hardly comes close to what visual programing
- > researchers mean by a visual programming enviroment.
- >
- > Of course the class of programmers who use Powerbuilder/SQL Windows/VB/
- > Delphi exclusively are stupid enough to think that GUI apps are the only things
- > out there to be programmed are GUI apps, and that whatever has been
- > given a name beforehand doesn't count and they can just choose to call things
- > what they want.
-
- But Delphi is not just a visual programming language. It is
- quite possible to write an app or dll in Delphi that makes
- no use of visual controls and forms - or even nothing from it's
- VCL class library. You can certainly use it to write a payroll
- app or a switching system.
-
- Delphi is essentially Borland Pascal v. 8 or Object Pascal.
- Saying that you can't write a payroll app or a switching system
- with Delphi is just like saying you can't write such apps with
- Pascal or with C.
-
- Delphi is in a completly different class than Powerbuilder/SQL Windows/VB
- though it also delivers a visual programmming envvironment when
- you need it.
-
- - Chris
-
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- Christopher J Fynn <cfynn@sahaja.demon.co.uk>
-