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- From: dagenais@hagen.vlsi.polymtl.ca (Michel Dagenais)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Java closer to Modula-3 than to C++
- Date: 29 Feb 96 11:30:23
- Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
- Message-ID: <DAGENAIS.96Feb29113023@hagen.vlsi.polymtl.ca>
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- In-reply-to: Kevin Berry's message of Mon, 26 Feb 1996 17:56:33 +0200
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- > Give Delphi a look if you haven't already - I think Borland really requires some credit here.
- > It's good to see PC Magazine gave them the Technical Excellence award (for a development product
- > - no C++ compiler was mentioned) for 1995 and "Byte" gave them the equivalent for 1994. Although
- > I wouldn't 100% go for anything PC Magazine reviewed, "Byte" you have to respect.
-
- I have discussed the Delphi/C++/M3 issues a lot recently with serious
- developers. You already reviewed the C++ problems in your posting. I will
- only add that there is a difference between "portable standard" C++ and
- what you get from one vendor which may have cute but non portable libraries
- for a number of things.
-
- Similarly, Delphi does not run on anything else than Windows, the 32 bits
- version may barely be out by the time you read this, threads may have been
- included in this new version and will break a few things, and garbage
- collection just is not there. The user interfaces built with Delphi
- are generally not "resizable" and it is hard to control the color map
- (the FAQ says you dont want to change size/resolution, you really dont
- want, if you want be careful with ... very long list of warnings...).
- This said, Delphi is otherwise very interesting and clean.
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- Prof. Michel Dagenais http://www.vlsi.polymtl.ca/dagenais/home/home.html
- Dept of EE and Computer Eng. dagenais@vlsi.polymtl.ca
- Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal tel: (514) 340-4029
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