Re: What this mean for Borland?

dageek,

If you think that Delphi is just another Object Pascal variant, can you then please inform me where to find the original *Object* Pascal implementation ?

i'd say that there isn't any one "original" Object Pascal implementation, but it's beyond doubt that there are other OP implementations around (besides Chrome) to warrant not equating Delphi with the only or the definitive Object Pascal. Apple, for example, had an OP long before Delphi.

IMHO, Visual Studio as a product, is just a *host* with 3 languages preinstalled (C#, VB.NET and J#). Using your logic, everyone could then claim that Visual Studio supports every language in the planet that that provide or could provide a Visual Studio plugin. I could also claim that the fact that my sofware runs under Windows, Microsoft official supports my software (my software actually *is* a Windows "plugin") ...

Indeed, yes. Lemme apply your terminology to a different case:

Marc, Microsoft official supports only products that are *official* part of their product line. Chrome, ActivePerl, ActivePython, Eiffel.NET etc, are *not* official recognized from Microsoft so they are official *not* supported.

You are mixing two meanings of "support". Noone ever claimed that Microsoft "provides support" (as in, gives assistance) for Chrome, but Visual Studio "supports" (as in allows) developing in Object Pascal.

Similarly, for example, Borland surely doesn't "provide support" for third party components, but you would surely say that Delphi does support third party components?

Btw, if you *really* think that VS supports Object Pascal through chrome, why Microsoft doesn't ... ? Someone must be wrong here .... don't you think ?

The only thing that's wrong is your and the Captain's attempt to twist the use of the word "to support" to suit your line of argument.

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marc hoffman
Chief Architect, .NET
RemObjects Software
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