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- From: Paul Morrison <rxhead@entertain.com>
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- Subject: Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 08:56:49 -0700
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- Rune Moberg wrote:
-
- Why are the Delphi holy rollers all over the place trying to convert us VBers? I currently own
- Delphi and I plan on purchasing the upgrade to 32bits in March. I personally feel that I am
- producing one hell of an app with VB4-32. The key word here is 32bits. Delphi, at the moment,
- does not offer this capability on the open market. Maybe I am banking to much on VB's continued
- success, but if we get improved form speed and perhaps a compiler I will be ahead of you and
- Delphites. I think Delphi is a fine product, but my future is with VB and Microsoft.
-
- >
- > I haven't seen SpyWorks, but Delphi 1.0 does this right out of the box.
- >
- > IMO, it has a better IDE than VB4, while offering a powerful language that
- > indeed can be compared to C++. Of course, SpyWorks probably enhances this,
- > but whatever it does, I'm sure can be built for Delphi too. The difference
- > is that any enhancements can be done with Delphi and doesn't require a second
- > development language.
- >
- > VB is BASIC with a few added keywords and the possibility to use VBXs and
- > DLLs. Performancewise it's still the BASIC we've all learned to love/hate.
- > (insert rumours of the old QuickBasic being a true compiler here)
- >
-
- Well I like my 3rd party OCX's like Spyworks. It makes things simple, fast, and EASY. I have a
- strong feeling that Spyworks allows me to do things much faster and quicker than Delphi, but I
- could be wrong!
-
- >
- > And I will have an even faster application implemented in less hours.
- > ;-)
- >
-
- But will it be a true 32bit app for 95 or NT??????????
-
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