Re: What this mean for Borland?

John,

"Supports" does NOT mean "allow" in this context. That silly claim is DOA, marc.

Whatever you say, Jake. This discussion is getting ridiculous and, to be honest, a tiny bit boring.

By your logic, the Delphi IDE supports every language under the sun, since it *allows* any language to be opened up as a text file. For example, what's to prevent me from opening up a java language file in the Delphi IDE? Nothing, it is allowed. But nobody in their right mind would say that Delphi supports Java.

Right, since nothing special Java-related happens if you open that file in Delphi. If someone (Borland OR a third party (if Delphi were open to third party languages)) were to write a Java project system for Delphi, this would change, and suddenly Delphi /would/ support Java.

Its simple, really, unless one tries /very/ had to miss or circumvent the point...

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