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- From: pitre@n5160d.nrl.navy.mil (Richard Pitre)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Will Delphi 2.0 go SUPERNOVA in 1996?
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 14:42:35 GMT
- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- Message-ID: <4fador$mr2@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- References: <31175b89.295015289@news.fastlane.net>
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- In article <31175b89.295015289@news.fastlane.net> writes:
- > vincer@iaccess.za (Vince Risi) wrote:
- >
- > >As Delphi 1.0 was hot in 1995, will Delphi 2.0 blow the top off 1996?
- > >
- > >What are your predictions?
- >
- > I predict that people will keep posting their religious convictions
- > about Delphi to inappropriate newsgroups until they go into a
- > DelphiLovin' frenzy and EXPLODE into a burst of ObjectPascal bliss! At
- > that point they won't need newsgroups. They'll be standing on a pile of
- > Amigas and broadcasting the merits of the OneTrueLanguage on the STREET
- > CORNERS!
- >
- > Late next year, Delphi will transcend softwarehood. Delphi will become
- > a conscienceness unto itself! Delphoids (a new term I just coined) will
- > all march into the sea and become Delphonic fish-beings, absorbing
- > sunlight and broadcasting DelphiCode to each other beneath the waves!
- >
- > Either that or it'll remain a Windows-only Object Pascal compiler.
- >
- > ---
- > John Hattan High UberPopeness -The First Church of Shatnerology
- > The Code Zone Sweet Software for a Saturnine World
- > hattan@fastlane.net http://www.fastlane.net/~hattan/
-
- Delphi is a religion and, for most programmers, using C++ is fashion statement.
- Once you've skimmed that skum they both have their practical side, each for a
- small subset of programmers and applications. No doubt they are both used
- outside of their viable domains. Thats how we turn XRAY machines into human
- toasters.
-
- richard
-