Re: some interesting perspectives on .NET from the other camp ...
From: Dan Barclay (Dan_at_MVPs.org)
Date: 02/13/05
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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:46:44 -0600
That would be nice, but it's certainly not necessary.
Remember, the target audience are a huge group of developers who have
"known" that there was a safe path forward in VB. What could be more safe
than the company's (world's) largest selling development environment? What
could be more safe than being in the middle of a crowd of 6MM folks who all
want the same thing? They have had major incompatibilities thrust upon
them anyway.
Borland only needs to show Language Stability. Somehow I don't think
that's hard to do. Look at the considerations/rules I think are important.
See "Standard for Language Stability" in
http://vb.mvps.org/tips/stability.asp
Can you take core language functions and fragments (excludes i/o, api, etc),
compile them in the next version, and have them work? That's pretty much
the bottom line. It really ain't that hard, and it's nothing more than
common sense.
History matters. Promises are just the promises of marketeers.
The only hard part, in my opinion, is getting apps (and developers) to
Delphi.
Dan
"Thomas Miller" <tmiller@bss-software.com> wrote in message
news:420f93a1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> The problem is Borland would need to put out a road map to
> show how long term they would be safe with Borland. That
> would be the biggest selling point. Borland won't release
> a road map.
>
> Write once and deploy W32, W64, .Net 1, or .Net2! What a
> sales pitch!!!
>
>
>> I don't know what you or I can do beyond pointing out the opportunity and
>> explaining it.
>>
>> Later,
>> Dan
>>
>>
>
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