Re: Delphi, Win32 and .NET (long)

From: Erwien Saputra (erwien_at_nospam.codeilne.dot.net)
Date: 03/31/04


Date: 30 Mar 2004 17:01:04 -0800

Barry Kelly wrote:
>
> Category C: Delphi minus the VCL, as a 'Pascal-Syntax' C#.
> Delphi 8 fails to be this for VCL compatibility reasons.

I had hard time with this statement. Language is simple, framework is
hard. The power of a development tools lies mostly in the framework.
I think all languages that I know are useless without the framework.

But without the VCL framework, I do not think Delphi is a
'pascal-syntax' C#. I used to think like that, but there are a lot of
differences between those two.

For example, C# does not support virtual constructor, stand alone
function, while Delphi is.

Wien.



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