Re: Delphi, .NET and Linux

GrandmasterB wrote:
"Paul Nichols [TeamB]" <paul@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4679ed4b$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
GrandmasterB wrote:
"Paul Nichols [TeamB]" <paul@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:467895da@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Minor nit - wxWidgets uses native controls.
****They all call the APIs of the underlying OS****, when possible.

In other words, they're native. Thank you for conceding the point.

However, unless you have the time to focus on a single app or have a very large staff for support and upgrades, I doubt you will find it worth the effort overall. :)

I re-iterate a point I've been making here for a while now... not everyone is making a different 'corporate app' each week. In mass market software, you DO work on limited number of apps over a very long time frame. Because your GUI will span 5 or 10 years, maybe longer, spending some extra time on an x-platform one is not as much of a big deal. Not everyone is stuffed into a cubicle for 12 hours a day, you know, toiling away generating their TPS reports.
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So because professional developers are not stuck in a corner cranking out the same app day by day, they are all Office Space employees? Hmm, rather condescending don't you think?

You cannot possibly believe that the large Enterprise type developers are really working with limited abilities, do you? While the Enterprise developer may not deal with the problems that a smaller one app shop would normally face, they usually have very daunting and extremely large scale considerations and tasks.

For instance, while smaller focused app shops may have to perform customization and upgrade rollouts to many, usually these applications have a limited simultaneous user base. However, Enterprise Corporate developers are often faced with the daunting task of building applications that support tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of users. These developers have to be keenly aware of some things that the smaller shops developers may consider on a very limited scale, but to the Enterprise Corporate developer, they cannot afford to be after thoughts, they must be every day considerations. Scalability, memory constraints, session management, transaction management, redundancy, fail-over, latency issues, etc., these are standard fare in a large scale Enterprise IT shop.

Then consider IT consultants. I do not know any full time consultants who have the luxury of working in a single app world.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with those who work in your type of environment. I never remember even remotely indicating there was.

Everyone has different priorities, according to the environments they work. That is why there are different jobs and different companies. But to believe large corp developers are only filling out status reports is a joke!


Of course, your toolsets will vary according to what your focus is. It should. The requirements should drive the methodology employed, not the other way around.

Personally, I would not want to live in a one app world, too confining and boring to me. But that's just me.

Really? Open source is different from open standards??? Why GOSH, I did not know that! How'd I make it 20+ years in programming without you??? Now if I can only figure out what this whole 'object oriented' thing is all about.

You might be surprised!!

Some do read Open Standards and think Open Source. I did not want people to misconstrue what I was saying, that's all.

What you understood as condescending. I meant for clarification of what I was saying.


Give the lectures a rest, please. We're all professionals, here.

Never indicated that anyone wasn't. Your assumption I guess :)
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