Re: Visual Studio 2005 Express in now permanently free...

> If people can plunk down $350 for a digital point and shoot for
> their vacation photos they should have no problem paying
> the same for Delphi.

Sweet hobby spot is about $0 again, for a very rich IDE, like it was in the era of D6 Personal, or almost $0 like for D5 Standard, but nowadays, free/almost-free IDEs are thanks to MS and VS Express (how the tables have turned...).

The comparison with digital P&S is not valid, first because there is no free digital camera available, and second because a camera is hardware you can't do without... while you can perfectly do hobby programming without Delphi (actually, it requires research just to be aware Delphi *exists* for the student/hobby population at large).

Eric
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