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- Subject: Re: C++ with Zapp vs. Delphi
- Date: 22 Jan 1996 14:02:00 -0700
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- In article <MiC+wg2yqXgC083yn@iaccess.za> vincer@iaccess.za (Vince Risi) writes:
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- >> : > 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.
-
- >Again this is not TRUE. Delphi supports non visual components
- >to do more than dialog boxes. It supports a complete compiler that
- >has 12 years of development behind it. You can compile as much non
- >GUI application as you want. It does support DOS apps and Windows
- >95 and Windows NT console apps.
-
-
- Vince, "those who know not whereof they speak, should not speak, but they
- will speak nonetheless. Therefore do not answer them, for such people also
- require themselves to have the last word."
-
- Forsooth.
-