Re: A whiter Delphi

From: Captain Jake (jake[nospam)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:17:15 -0600

Kevin Boswell <kevin@legendsoft.com> wrote in message
<41fba5be@newsgroups.borland.com>
> it does appear that the Borland resources being spent on the Galileo IDE
> would be better spent on the language itself, rather than playing catchup in
> the IDE arena to a better funded and focused VS.

Well, there are some non-trivial things that the BDS 3 IDE can do that VS can
not, so I don't know if the term "catch up" is really accurate here. In any
event, I think Julian is all wet on this topic. Languages, including Object
Pascal, are good enough. Future improvements, while nice, are probably beyond
the point of diminishing returns. 

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