Re: Why no language improvements?

From: John Kaster (Borland) (johnk_at_borland.com)
Date: 03/14/05 

Date: 13 Mar 2005 21:34:27 -0800

Mike Margerum wrote:

> The real strength of Delphi/BCB is the VCL. There's already ARM
> C/C++ compilers and IDE's out there. Code warrior for example.

Yes, but even though our C++ IDE is superior for Code warrior, we did
not see significant ROI on that work. At least, not yet.

> I can see there isn't much of a chance of these things being
> implemented in the win32 compiler which is the only part of Delphi I
> would care about anyhow.

What makes you see that? Certainly not Danny's post.

> I've pretty much decided to drop Delphi

Based on this comment, I think you're projecting your own attitudes
onto Danny's post. 

-- 
John Kaster http://blogs.borland.com/johnk
Features and bugs: http://qc.borland.com 
Get source: http://cc.borland.com
If it's not here, it's not happening: http://ec.borland.com

Relevant Pages

  • Re: vc6++ future
    ... > gobbles it up with Vs.net or not ... VC++ 6 will continue to be used as long as it remains superior to the ... > Is Working with .Net intimidating for people or more the fact why change to ... they're handicapped with an IDE that's somewhere ...
    (microsoft.public.vc.language)
  • Re: Would you buy Delphi Classic?
    ... Kyle A. Miller wrote in: ... >> Borland is. ... > That's because the new IDE is superior. ... I agree, it /is/ superior. ...
    (borland.public.delphi.non-technical)
  • Re: New to .NET
    ... C#'s IDE experience is vastly ... superior. ... Could you provide some examples of why you think the C# IDE is better, ... What a waste of keystrokes. ...
    (microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb)
  • Re: New to .NET
    ... Tom Shelton wrote: ... C#'s IDE experience is vastly ... superior. ... Could you provide some examples of why you think the C# IDE is better, ...
    (microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb)