"that he had hired" is legitimate English. It is not the same as "that he hired". The worst crime in using it is that it is ambiguous; does he mean that he had someone else do the hiring, or that he had done the hiring himself?
"he hired" is the simple past active tense and "he had hired" is the past perfect active tense.
the "right to remain silent" is part of the American Miranda rights- it has nothing to do with New Zealand, and as far as I know, in NZ, you do NOT have the right to remain silent.
I think that many people here are confusing Delphi with Visual Basic. Most Delphi developers are not drag'n'drop idiots as you can see from the wide array of Delphi apps out there - which could not be done with drag'n'drop.
In addition to your comments, many delphi developers release their code under the GPL - something which will occur much more frequently once Kylix is out I believe.
Could you be so kind as to name some of these programs?
OTOH, it will keep Windows programmers from learning how Linux development and programming works. They'll develop in the same style that they developed on Windows, and they'll produce the same kind of software that they produce on Windows.
Surely this applies only to the Delphi users who make software you don't like to use anyway? Afterall, if most of the windows apps are made with C++ the C++ users will have no problem adjusting to linux (they just choose not to). The Delphi users are all anxious to migrate to linux. It seems to me you simply don't want Delphi users to write software for Linux.
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"that he had hired" is legitimate English. It is not the same as "that he hired". The worst crime in using it is that it is ambiguous; does he mean that he had someone else do the hiring, or that he had done the hiring himself?
"he hired" is the simple past active tense and "he had hired" is the past perfect active tense.
-- In principio creavit Deus caelum et terram.
Well said.
I think that many people here are confusing Delphi with Visual Basic. Most Delphi developers are not drag'n'drop idiots as you can see from the wide array of Delphi apps out there - which could not be done with drag'n'drop.
-- In principio creavit Deus caelum et terram.
I think the opensource VCL you are referring to might be the Jedi VCL which has a website here: http://www.delphi-jedi.org/Jedi:VCLVCL:578699194
In addition to your comments, many delphi developers release their code under the GPL - something which will occur much more frequently once Kylix is out I believe.
-- In principio creavit Deus caelum et terram.
Could you be so kind as to name some of these programs?
Surely this applies only to the Delphi users who make software you don't like to use anyway? Afterall, if most of the windows apps are made with C++ the C++ users will have no problem adjusting to linux (they just choose not to). The Delphi users are all anxious to migrate to linux. It seems to me you simply don't want Delphi users to write software for Linux.
-- In principio creavit Deus caelum et terram.