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Delphi Renaissance

Posted by Hemos on from the back-from-beyond-the-pale dept.

bongo69 writes "The TIOBE Programming Community Index is reporting that Delphi is experiencing a revival, this coincides with Borland recently releasing Delphi 2005 allowing users to target both win32 and .net platforms, which to some, is a welcome alternative for .net developers reluctant to use Microsoft Visual Studio or the opensource alternative SharpDevelop."

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  1. Re:Why? by Pxtl · · Score: 0, Troll

    Better language support is cool, because I'll never understand why a nice tool like Delphi standardised on a painful language like Pascal. Replacing the symbols in C with words just makes less legible C. The only nice part of the Pascal languages is the := assignment.

  2. Can anyone actually get sharpdevelop to run? by Idimmu+Xul · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've just installed SharpDeveop to have a tinker and when it runs I am getting a shit load of errors based around a missing zip file. No wonder people would prefer to use Delphi, if it actually works!

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  3. Re:Why? by Infinityis · · Score: 0, Troll

    Visual Studio and mono(poly) products?

    It's because we all hate Microsoft and their monopoly. Delphi is not made by Microsoft, thus making it better than Visual Studio, etc.

    At least, that's the general idea I've gotten from reading a few months worth of material on Slashdot.

  4. They should port it to BSD by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 0, Troll

    They have something in common, if you believe Netcraft.

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