Re: Just for fun ...

From: genc ymeri (genc_ymeri_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/08/03 

Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 14:00:01 -0400

This kind of fun made me to switch from Vb programmer to Delphi, just around
D1/D2 "era" (~6 years ago if I'm not mistaken)......... I was trying to
create a financial project with countless financial forms in VB,,,,,,and it
became so messy ! All the excitment I had when I did the first samples in VB
was gone and I felt lost in coding lines......

I would have started (and finished) at that time the program with tp7 but
our customer wanted a win31 based one. (for some reason I didn't like much
the first version of Pascal for Windows ).

Then one of my friends asked me why don't I do it in Delphi since he knew I
was familiar with pascal. "What's that?" - I asked him .

It didn't last long to learn what Delphi is and sticking with it since then.

Hope Borland will make Delphi to stick with it forever...........

"Clément Doss" <cdoss@nospam.dhs.com.br> wrote in message
news:3f8420af@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
>
> How fun can it get to convert a VB developer to Delphi ;-)
>
>
> The VB team challenge me to do a project in Delphi, while they would do
the same one
> in VB. It turned out to be a "perfect" OO challenge for delphi, and when I
got the
> specs I just couldn't stop laughing at their misfortune.
> Of course they said that if they win, I will have to start developing in
VB, if I win
> they not only will have develop in Delphi copy, but also buy me the beers
till the
> end of the year ...
> I guess I'm just bad to the bones.
>
> Get some data, apply some transformations and spit out the results in
charts and/or
> text file. The data were in fact parameters that were used to apply the
correct
> transformation to a dynamic created array. The transformations were always
the same
> with some minor changes. There were 25 different transformations.
>
> I'm not that good OO designer, but it took me a 2 days to finish all the
project.
> They took 3. So what!!!!
>
> Then let me just point some projects features:
> - Data entry
> - Delphi project accepts data from :
> - Simple form with editors each of them with the correct type (ex.
Float
> Editor for Float numbers, etc)
> - Simple form with Data-aware editors (link to any ADO compliant
Database)
> - Text file: Fixed sized, Comma Delimited or XML
> - Ini file where you can configure your choice(s).
> - VB Project
> - Simple form only. All editors are TEdits. "We didn't want to
waste time on that"
>
> - Transformation
> - Delphi Project :
> - Base class with common attributes
> - Derived from base class with expression evaluator
(BaseExpEval)
> - Derived from base class with method override (BaseExpOver)
> - 4 classes derived from BaseExpOver.
> - 1 Classe derived from BaseExpEval.
> (With the above all the 25 transformations are covered. Ok,
There are
> also a file with 21 lines. Each one with the expression to be evaluated..)
> - VB Project
> - Dont' know what they did, but 4 transformation were missing or
incorrect. I
> Guess they hadn't time to waste on that too!!
>
>
> - Output
> - Delphi project
> - Chart : TChart did it just fine
> - TextFile : Once again: Fixed, Delimited or XML (you pick)
> - VB Project
> - Chart : Did fine
> - Text : Only fixed.
>
>
> And as a Delphi Bonus to the project, a simple interface to setup the
config files.
>
> What can I say... I'll be drunk 'til the end of the year.....
> BTW I'm still a little dizzy, some might say drunk, from last night.
> Partying with their money is a lot better!!!
>
>
> Clément
>
>
>
>

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