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- From: glazer@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu (JON GLAZER)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc
- Subject: Re: Delphi .vs. C++ 4.0...The real discussion!
- Message-ID: <1996Apr19.095217.9156@ohstpy>
- Date: 19 Apr 96 09:52:17 -0400
- References: <1996Apr18.173628.9153@ohstpy> <4l7fc5$ql1@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk>
- Followup-To: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc
- Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Physics
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-
- I guess what I was really hoping for was a fair comparrison between Delphi and
- Microsoft's C++ 4.0. I know (and have heard) many people like Delphi over
- Borland C++ for development, and the fact they both have the same backend,
- makes them pretty much the same where the end-product is concerned. My
- understanding is that Microsoft's product extends the C++ development
- environment such that some of the shortcommings of Borland's C++ are
- eliminated.
-
- What do you all think?
-
- Jon
-
-
- In article <4l7fc5$ql1@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk>, mrw@oasis.icl.co.uk (Mike Wilson) writes:
- > I've used Borland C++ 4.5 and Delphi for development. I worked
- > on a project writing the client end of a Client/Server
- > application (the server was written in Oracle PL/SQL). I found
- > C++ to be very fiddly indeed. In particular, writing dialogs is
- > far more tricky and error-prone than doing the same job in
- > Delphi. Borland C++ is NOT a visual languange, so you have to
- > lay out your dialog in Resource Workshop and then write a C++
- > module to handle it. There's lots of dialog handling code to
- > write that is done for you in Delphi. If you make a mistake
- > and get a resid wrong, the whole PC hangs and has to be rebooted.
- > I can take most if the day to get a pretty simple dialog working
- > which would take minutes in Delphi.
- >
- > With C++ there's a lot more managing of project files to do
- > as well. On anything but the smallest project this can add
- > up to quite a lot of work.
- >
- > For some projects the fine control C++ gives you may be useful
- > and welcome, but for the sort fo thing we were doing, it's
- > unnecessary and unwelcome and added months to the project.
- >
- > There are probably uses for C++. As it's a lot lower-level
- > than Delphi, it may be more appropriate for writing tricky
- > stuff like compression, drivers and so on. For the more
- > usual end-user applications, clients etc, Delphi is far
- > more suitable.
- >
- > --------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Mike Wilson mrw@oasis.icl.co.uk
- > SNI Medical Portfolio, 9-15 Blagrave Street, Reading, RG1 1PJ, UK
- > At home: mrw@plexus.demon.co.uk http://www.hway.com/mrw
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