Re: Delphi 2005 Personal

Alvaro GP wrote:

> Hi David, your solution looks interesting but it is still the same
> problem: my apps would depend on the .NET Framework runtime (which is
> why I'm dead against .NET).

Not quite sure I understand your reservations here. Is it based on
first hand experience developing applications using it?

The .NET Framework is actually quite nice to work with in many areas,
and it's not hard to incorporate the runtime deployment and
installation into your applications installer. I don't find WinForms
GUI development to be one of it's strong points (VCL still wins hands
down there), but with the solution I proposed you'd get to skip all
that anyway. :-)

Sure it may not be the right tool for all tasks, but will do perfectly
fine for many applications.

> Do you remember Symantec Visual Cafe, which compiled Java to native
> Win32? If that existed for .NET, I would be writing .NET apps today.

No sorry, I don't know much about that (apart from recognizing the
name).

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