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Borland C++Builder Revolt

Posted by michael on from the fight-the-man dept.

florescent_beige writes "Developers using Borland's C++Builder RAD tool are in revolt. Borland apparently obsoleted this product one year ago. However, the promised migration path (to be described in a now infamous open letter) never materialized. In a last-ditch effort to convince Borland to support them, users have put together a letter justifying (and begging) for continued support."

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  1. Delphi Pascal is a joke with no formal syntax by archeopterix · · Score: 0, Troll
    Their flagship Delphi fails to work on XP systems with the latest SP 2 applied.
    That's the smallest problem with Delphi that I see. Delphi is a joke. Why? Have you ever tried to obtain a formal syntax for their "Object Pascal"? Good luck, one probably doesn't even exist. That's right. I'm not kidding you. The only program on earth that can parse 100% of Delphi code is the Delphi compiler!. See this thread on comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc.

    This is year 2004 and Borland offers us a language for which you cannot write a code analyzer/class diagram generator/semi-automatic doc generator - nothing that works on 100% of their code.

    I repeat: Delphi is a joke language that needs to die.