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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. GNAA presents shemale cow porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    eat it

  2. 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.

  3. 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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  4. 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.

  5. Re: SharpDevelop? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's always good to see more competition in the world of IDEs, especially since the last good one from Microsoft was 6.0 in my opinion.

    However the reference to SharpDevelop is laughable. Professionals don't use that piece of crap nor do they use Mono for that matter, only basement losers. Open Source doesn't make second rate software more attractive, except for Linux. But that's only because it's free and good enough for its limited tasks. Yeah you read it right. Linux is shit, fucking cock-smoking teabbaging faggots.

  6. 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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  7. Delphi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Was a pretty nice language, has some OO, but it is missing a couple of (IMHO) important things that made it worse than C++. No destructors. This would be fine if it had a GC (though even the GC languages have destructors of some kind). This made it real easy to get memory leaks from stack variabls......

    I worked one place that did Delphi, was a decent language, but if you ever thing C++ coding standards are a holy war, try introducing a standard not on the Borland site to hard core Delphi people...... :)