Re: Delphi within Visual Studio?!?!

From: Xavier Pacheco (xavier_at__nospam_xapware.com)
Date: 08/06/04 

Date: 6 Aug 2004 12:04:28 -0700

Captain Jake wrote:

> The problem for Delphi enthusiasts is that you are not going to
> fare well proposing a non-MSFT language to someone who has already
> bought into a "Microsoft solution".

This is because, as you already stated, companies associate the
technology (.NET in this case) with the language C#. But this is not
the message that Microsoft speaks, nor is it the fact. C#, while is
was born by Microsoft, is a standard language and stands on its own
AFAIC. It is advantageous for Microsoft to open its IDE to whatever
flavor of programming language that can compile to generate IL. I am
hopeful that in the future, the two can be removed from one another.

Certainly, there is some education that could be done in this area.
Understand, I'm not a language bigot by any means. I am, however, more
comfortable in using Delphi than any other language at this time. That
could change, I'm starting to think about X#. <g>.

 - x

  

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Xavier Pacheco
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Xapware Technologies Inc
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