Re: D8: first impression and uneasy feeling... (long)

From: Admiral Jake (johnjac76[nospam)
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:07:00 -0600

"Robert Kozak" <rkozak@nowcom.comNOSPAM> wrote in message
news:403b894a$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Because I believe in adjusting to the standards of the language you are
> using.

Same here. It makes no sense to write Delphi code using a C++ syntax, or C++
code using a Delphi syntax, yet this is what many developers do when they
switch from one to the other.

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