Re: Version after Version

Thanks for your views Frank.

It saddens me to hear that Borland could be on the outs. I've always liked
that company back in the day. It was developer friendly. What happened? They
get a bunch of MS-heads to invade them?

I know everything seems to be heading towards server-side programming. But
hey, I'd think most folks want to run their apps ON THEIR PC's rather than
having to be ONLINE to run a slower version. I suppose we can just hold on
to the last Win32 programming environments and continue creating client-side
apps (unbloated) while there are Win32 OS's still on the majority of PCs.

You listed Version 5 and 7. What's up with 6?

If you happened to have Delphi 2005, would you consider its Win32 compilier
to be at least as good or better than v 7.0? I ask because I might be able
to acquire it on the cheap.

Thanks!
Rick



"Frank de Groot" <franciad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "ProfitMaxTrading.com" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>
>>A new version out almost every year it appears. Is each new version
>> actually better than the last?
>
> Not always, sometimes not at all.
>
>> If you are a free-lance programmer as opposed
>> to working in a corporate enviroment, is it really worth paying the
>> upgrade
>> price every year or two?
>
> Only if you expect to earn the investment back. If you desperately need to
> make a .net version of your Pascal source, for example.
> When things aren't running slow enough, for example.
>
>> Is Version 7 the last strictly Win32 version in Delphi before getting
>> into
>> the NET thingy?
>
> Yes.
>
>> If you program strictly client-side (on the PC) and like executables that
>> are not bloated, would sticking with an earlier version be better to use?
>
> Yes.
>
>> What version would that be?
>
> D7 or D5.
>
>
>> I've not been in the Borland world since 1994. Before then I was strictly
>> Borland (C++ and Delphi). Didn't even know they were still around as they
>> don't make much headlines as in the old days. MS this, MS that is all you
>> hear. So I'm probing the possibility of programming Delphi again. Just
>> want
>> to make sure also that I'm not going to waste time doing so if the
>> company
>> is going belly up or support is diminishing.
>
> It is my conviction that Borland will be history soon.
> They don't have 64-bit support or Unicode support, they're dinosaurs.
> They've abandoned Delphi, they've abandoned native Windows development and
> put all eggs in the .net basket, and something called "ALM" (nothing to do
> with us developers).
>
> .net has failed on the desktop (and rightly so), meaning, only a miracle
> can save Borland. Delphi 7 is still usable for times to come, but not for
> the applications of the future. As for 64-bit support supposedly "on the
> roadmap", I believe it when I see it.
>


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