Re: What this mean for Borland?

"marc hoffman" <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

That is entirely your doing. You made a rash statement, got called on it,
and now are trying to get out of the hole you dug. Just admit you misspoke
and be done with it.


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.

No, only if it came in the box could it truthfully be said that "Delphi
supports Java".

For example, I can use UMLExplorer and CodeExplorer to get modelling and
refactoring in Delphi 6. Does that mean that Delphi 6 supports refactoring
and remodelling? Not by a long, long, long shot.


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

Exactly. This discussion has required very little effort on *my* part.


.

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