Re: D2005 - A Hated Product!

From: chrisC (chris_at_infocards.com)
Date: 12/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:00:13 -0800

"Thomas Lambert" <x@x.x> wrote in message
news:41be98d9$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>

> and now D2005, a hated product! it doesn't have any new features

You must be looking in the wrong place? There are tons of new stuff.

> in Win32 programming, it is based on .NET platform, it is very slow

Slower yes but if you defragment your disks, it will help a lot! Runs fine
on my 900 Mhz/ 512M RAM laptop. I use SpeedDisk and set it up everynight to
run at 4 am.

>and has a lot of bugs, and its new UI has a large number of
> disadvantages (i.e. you can't copy/paste objects in the form
> designer)!
>
> D2005 needs more than 2 minutes to be started on a computer with
45 seconds on my humble hardware.

> 200MHz processor and 1GB of RAM!!! a very strange behaviour for
> a programming language. Borland adds some unrelated products to
> this version (such as C#)

You're only interested in Win32. Others need both Win32 and .NET and still
others work with mixed projects that need to support C# assemblies. It's
wonderful!

> p.s. don't try to tell me and others that D2005 is popular and
> usable,

It's a great leap forward and quite usable and with the forthcoming patch
will make it much more stable. I think you should stick to D7 or spend some
serious time understanding the new environment.

Regards

Chris

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