Re: Looking for Academic version of Delphi?

From: Nico Aragón (nico_at_espira.net)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:56:41 +0200

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:17:24 -0500, Eric Schreiber
<eric@nospam_ericschreiber.com> wrote:

>Nico Aragón <nico@espira.net> wrote:
>
>>>Seems to me the upcoming Delphi 2005 kind of blows your "Delphi is
>>>deprecated" observation to smithereens.
>
>>I don't think so. Delphi as in my "Delphi is deprecated" fear is the
>>native OP compiler. It's not "Delphi the IDE". "Delphi the language"
>>is in an intermediate position, because it's a migration path for
>>current users of the native compiler to .NET.
>
>The addition of .NET to Delphi does not imply the removal of Win32
>from Delphi, now or in the future.

No. But that's not what I said.

>Ultimately, the path that any
>programming language takes will be dictated by the primary computer
>platform.

I think this affirmation is... a little bit exaggerated :-) 

--
salu2,
   Nico

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