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- From: Tim Sullivan <tim@ontrack.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.misc
- Subject: Re: C++ with Zapp vs. Delphi
- Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 14:16:59 +0000
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- M> >I fail to see how "simpler" means less "powerful/flexible"?
- [...]
- > For some people if something is simpler to use means it is less
- > powerful ! But DELPHI is just if not more powerful than C++.[...]
-
- There is a large amount of language 'snobbery' that goes on in data
- processing departments. A lot of places (and people) are so hard-core
- set on C++ as 'the' development language of choice that they blind
- themselves to the alternatives. I've spent almost a dozen years
- programming in everything from COBOL to C++, Fortran to Pascal, and I
- have yet to find a system that is as flexible, as powerful and as easy
- to use as Delphi. Sometime I feel almost guilty using it :) !
-
- Now, having said that, unless you have a good deal of programming
- ability/skill/whatever, your programs are going to be clumsy, or slow,
- or just bad. Good development environments do not good programmers
- make. However it does make a good programmer's job much easier and can
- make a new programmers learning a lot easier as well... Though I
- wouldn't reccommend it as a beginner's language (Strings vs PChars, and
- related mysteries can be just plain confusing).
-
- Tim
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